Fluent dependency in Fensap ice is not working

- April 10, 2024 at 9:12 am
  
  Jan Hubáček
  Subscriber
  
  I wanted to do remeshing between iterations of FENSAP in Fluent Meshing, because this enables me to keep mesh quality. ALE remeshing tools deterate mesh quality wastly. When I tried to remesh. Fluent meshing was not found by FENSAP. Here is the log file of the program:
  = Using NTI_PATH : C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v232\fensapice\bin\
  = Using FLUENT_EXE: C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v232\fluent\ntbin\win64\fluent
  = Using FLUENT_H5 :
  = Using FLUENT2FENSAP_PARAMS :
  ...Reading ../RG_15_45mm grid file
  Error loading fensap grid ../RG_15_45mm
  = fensap2fluent 2023 R2 =
  -nosoln mode
  ==Reading FENSAP grid
  Error loading fensap grid shell
  Opening input/output transcript to file "C:\Users\navratil\Downloads\RG_15\run_RG15_rime__multiiteration\\fluent-20240404-112734-3996.trn".
  Auto-Transcript Start Time: 11:27:34, 04 Apr 2024 Central Europe Daylight Time
  Welcome to ANSYS Fluent 2023 R2.02
  Copyright 1987-2023 ANSYS, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  Unauthorized use, distribution or duplication is prohibited.
  This product is subject to U.S. laws governing export and re-export.
  For full Legal Notice, see documentation.
  Build Time: Aug 18 2023 08:31:10 EDT Build Id: 10213
  
  Connected License Server List:
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  This is an academic version of ANSYS FLUENT. Usage of this product
  license is limited to the terms and conditions specified in your ANSYS
  license form, additional terms section.
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  Host spawning Node 0 on machine "NAVRATIL-PC" (win64).
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ID Hostname Core O.S. PID Vendor
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  n0 NAVRATIL-PC 1/12 Windows-x64 8112 Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5645
  host NAVRATIL-PC Windows-x64 12308 Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5645
  MPI Option Selected: intel
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  Cleanup script file is C:\Users\navratil\Downloads\RG_15\run_RG15_rime__multiiteration\\cleanup-fluent-NAVRATIL-PC-3996.bat
  Reading journal file remeshing.jou...
  > ; remeshing script version 2022-03-04
  ;
  ; 2.5D REMESHING GUIDELINES
  ;
  ; The span direction should be Z+
  ; The symm BCs should be named 4300
  ; It is ok to have additional symmetry in Y direction
  ; The source symm plane has to be placed at Z = 0
  ; The material point should be placed close to the trailing edge, at half-span location
  ;
  /file/set-tui-version "19.5"
  Warning: The version that you specified is outside of the supported range. Update 'set-tui-version' to be within two full releases of the current release.
  Review the intervening release notes to see if any changes have been made to the text commands in your script and update the script accordingly.
  
  > /file/start-transcript fluentMeshing.log
  Opening input/output transcript to file "fluentMeshing.log".
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ID Hostname Core O.S. PID Vendor
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  n0* NAVRATIL-PC 1/12 Windows-x64 8112 Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5645
  host NAVRATIL-PC Windows-x64 12308 Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5645
  MPI Option Selected: intel
  Selected system interconnect: default
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ok
  invalid command [ok]
  > ; INITIALIZE FLAGS
  (define parallel-tet-beta? #f)
  parallel-tet-beta?
  
  > (define rotational-periodic? #f)
  rotational-periodic?
  
  > (define translational-periodic? #f)
  translational-periodic?
  
  > (define remesh-2d? #f)
  remesh-2d?
  
  > ; LOAD USER-DEFINED SIZES, MATERIAL POINT
  (load "meshingSizes.scm")
  Loading ".\.\meshingSizes.scm"
  Done.
  #f
  
  > ; APPLY HDF SETTINGS
  /file/read-journal "fluent_config.jou" ""
  Reading journal file fluent_config.jou...
  > /file/cff-files? n
  >
  >
  beta-feature-access exit preferences/
  boundary/ file/ print-license-usage
  display/ parallel/ switch-to-solution-mode
  > ; READ THE STL FROM ICE3D
  /file/import/cad-options/one-object-per file
  > /file/import/cad-options/one-face-zone-per face
  > /file/import/cad yes "newmesh.stl" no no m
  Importing one geom object per file and one zone per face ...
  C:\\Program Files\\ANSYS Inc\\v232\\commonfiles\\CPython\\3_10\\winx64\\Release\\python\\..\\Ansys\\TGrid\\CADReaders.py started by navratil on NAVRATIL-PC winx64 on Thu Apr 4 11:27:54 2024
  using Python 3.10.9 (remotes/origin/4e018266dafe29ec2836492d71d245fcfd366d07-dirty:4e018266, Jan 3 2) [MSC v.1920 64 bit (AMD64)]
  
  using Ansys.Meshing.FieldMesher build May 30 2023 15:18:26
  
  running ANSYS TGrid CADToTGridConverter ...
  setting up parameters ...
  setting up parameters done.
  running conversion ...
  converting 1 file(s) from Workbench to FLTG using output path 'C:\\Users\\navratil\\AppData\\Local\\Temp/out17122228723996.tgf'
  converting file 'newmesh.stl' (1 of 1) from Workbench to FLTG using output path 'C:\\Users\\navratil\\AppData\\Local\\Temp'
  importing data ...
  importing meshing model in STL format from file 'C:/Users/navratil/Downloads/RG_15/run_RG15_rime__multiiteration/newmesh.stl' ...
  solid 'newmesh'
  number of facets: 544435049
  preparing model ...
  running ANSYS TGrid CADToTGridConverter FAILED! (error in line 1, error reading facet coordinates from binary STL file
  importing meshing model in STL format from file 'C:/Users/navratil/Downloads/RG_15/run_RG15_rime__multiiteration/newmesh.stl' failed.)
  ran ANSYS TGrid CADToTGridConverter in 101.196 [s]
  ======== Command Execution Log Manager ========
  Number of execution logs: 2
  MeshingModelImportSTLExecLog
  Label = 'ANSYS_MESH_FM_ERROR_ID_MESHINGMODEL_IMPORT_STL_ERROR'
  
  DataTranslatorCommandExecLog
  Label = 'ANSYS_MESH_FM_ERROR_ID_CONVERT_WORKBENCH_TO_FLTG_ERROR'
  
  
  Warning: An error or interrupt occurred while reading the journal file.
  Some commands may not have been completed.
  
  Meshing> Halting due to end of file on input.
  Transcript closed.
  Auto-Transcript Stop Time: 11:29:35, 04 Apr 2024 Central Europe Daylight Time
  Total Transcript Time: 2 Minute 1 Second.
  Automatic transcript closed.
  Error: Error in CAD Import
  Error Object: #f
  ERROR: Remeshing step failed - newmesh.msh is missing
- April 11, 2024 at 2:02 pm
  
  RK
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hello,
  This seems to be a installation issue, your CAD configuration has failed.
  One other thing I want to bring to your attention is the line in the transcript:
  /file/set-tui-version "19.5"
  Warning: The version that you specified is outside of the supported range. Update 'set-tui-version' to be within two full releases of the current release.
  Review the intervening release notes to see if any changes have been made to the text commands in your script and update the script accordingly.
  Please consider updating your version.