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[gtderomance]

Dear Ansys community,

 

I need help with Mechanical 2025 R2 within a student license. I've been following the introductory and modeling courses with Discovery, but launching Mechanical 2025 R2 seems impossible. After double-clicking the "Model" button within a Static Structural element, I get the error visible in the first attached image. Even when trying to launch the program directly through execution, it crashes. I thouroughly checked the system requirements, and there seems to be no issue there, these are the details of my computer:

• 16GB physical RAM
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 3073 Laptop GPU, 8GB
• AMD Ryzen 7 6800H with Radeon Graphics, 3.2 GHz
• Windows 11 24H2

Nothing seems to work. I have visited the troubleshooting threads in support forums, reinstalled the entire suite, tried the name replacements (ansys to ansys_old), etc...

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!!

[Ashish Khemka]

Hi,

Can you try creating a new model/ project and see if the error persists?

Regards,

Ashish Khemka

[gtderomance]

Hello,

I tried creating a different geometry, but still doesn't work.

For reference, I can start Mechanical APDL with no apparent issues, so I'm guessing that the problem comes from the Mechanical GUI?

I've tried opening Mechanical directly again, and I get a different error message that I have attached.

Thank you for your answer so far!

[MangeshANSYS]

 

Hello,

please check for and remove any spaces in job names and paths to avoid the error above

 

i.e. save projects to something like c:\my_projects\Simulation\Project_abc_123\

etc etc (as you can see the only characters i used are a to z, 0 to 9 and underscore

 

Also please check free disk space and if an antivirus is blocking access by Ansys applications to the disk or from running

 

let me know if that helps

 

[Ashish Khemka]

Hi,

Please let me share this with the team, and they can comment more.

Regards,

Ashish Khemka