Reply To: ANSYS Mechanical won’t open and stays on Blank Gray Screen (Path environment va)

[Ace R]

Hello again Gary,

Despite initially thinking I successfully executed those commands as an administrator, it so happened that the problem was that trivial (with far-fetched cirucmstances, genuinely sorry for that). What happened subsequently is that all DLLs were registered successfully. After trying to open Mechanical from Workbench, I had a colossal amount of script error pop-ups. 

I did circumvent this problem but renaming some Ansys AppData file to itself+ _old which kind of refreshed those files. From a static structural analysis on Wb, I used a dummy geometry from Discovery, then double clicked model, and Mechanical finally opened up showing its interface for the first time. That said, my joy was short-lived as after trying to load the Geometry, I had this pop-up.

I followed the directory shown in the pop-up  (though the file names where partly Caps and mostly lower cases, I made sure there were just these ones that could potentially correspond to it) and I didn't find any AnsysWBDumpFile. Instead I found 2 Ansys files, one just named "Ansys" the other ANSYS with my desktop username.241. Nothing notable in the first file, though the second has this:

 

Within each of the most recent three of them, there were 2 files in each. One "asserts.dbg" and another "errors.dbg". I have no idea how to harness the files in order to get that so called diagnostic and know how to operate from there. 

The only maneuver that I found apropos of this error is to add a file directory in Mechanical: File> Options... > Analysis Settings and Solutions > Analysis data management > Scratch solver. I didn't have indeed any files path and I created a scratch folder on my desktop and assigned it there to receive any associated files. That said, the problem persists.

-The error displayed on WB is "Unable to display parameters property in Mechanical. Either the application crashed or Workbench lost communication with it"

-When importing the geomtry directly on Mechanical, in the message pane, "Mechanical Locked when attaching Geometry" is shown. 

 

I tried to see if it was a Discovery bug by transferring the file to SpaceClaim, in vain. I found on Reddit that saving the geometry as a STP file on newer versions might solve it, but I didn't find a way to do so on both software. Another user suggested that leaving the 2D sketch active on Discovery may occasion the problem. Wasn't the case for this dummy file and yet again, the same pop-up on Mechanical occurs.

 

Given the upcoming 11 days long maintenance, this message is pretty time sensitive. Your swift response would be very much appreciated.

Best Regards,

PS: My driver is updated to the latest version, and my GPU is decently powerful (GeForce RTX 2080Ti)