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[AlexSzatmary]

When I ran my model, I got a dialog box saying, "An unknown error occurred during solution. Check the Solver Output on the Solution Information object for possible causes." No error messages are listed in that solver output, only warnings. No results were produced.

Solver Output 2022-03-03.txt

[Saumadeep Choudhury]

Ansys employees are not allowed to download any files. So can you please share the screenshots of the warning messages that you mentioned?
Also, it would be helpful if you can share more about the analysis being performed: how the loads are applied, the boundary conditions, etc.

Regards, Saumadeep
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[AlexSzatmary]

I'm modeling a section of a keyway, meshed and supported as shown in the following pictures. A load is applied on the left of the bottom plate; other boundary conditions are frictionless supports. Part contacts are frictionless.


Relevant excerpts from the attached files are below.
file0.err:
/COM,ANSYS RELEASE 2021 R2BUILD 21.2UP2021060114:19:28

*** WARNING ***CP =0.609TIME= 14:19:29
Element shape checking is currently inactive.Issue SHPP,ON or
SHPP,WARN to reactivate, if desired.

*** WARNING ***CP =0.609TIME= 14:19:29
Material number 10 (used by element 963) should normally have at least
one MP or one TB type command associated with it.Output of energy by
material may not be available.
Excerpts from Solver Output:
*** NOTE ***CP =0.609TIME= 14:19:29
The model data was checked and warning messages were found.
Please review output or errors file (
\\Mac\Home\Documents\Education-4\ANSYS
model\_ProjectScratch\ScrF3F1\file0.err ) for these warning messages.
...
*** NOTE ***CP =0.609TIME= 14:19:29
The step data was checked and warning messages were found.
Please review output or errors file (
\\Mac\Home\Documents\Education-4\ANSYS
model\_ProjectScratch\ScrF3F1\file0.err ) for these warning messages.
...
NUMBER OF WARNING MESSAGES ENCOUNTERED=2
NUMBER OF ERRORMESSAGES ENCOUNTERED=0

[AlexSzatmary]

I resolved the issue. I'm running ANSYS on my Mac via Parallels. That's worked fine for some other applications but in this case, I needed to work with the files within the Windows image for files to be written properly.
I believe that ANSYS should give an error message for failing to write files.

[bhagwantP]

 

Hello AlexSzatmary,

Glad to know that issue has resolved!

Thanks.