July 27, 2017 at 5:37 pm
pgl
Ansys Employee

HI Alec, 

You've been extremely diligent in your installation and testing. I'm sorry that you are still running into problems. 

The tutorials on our academic webpage and YouTube channel are designed for the AIM Student product. But generally, the AIM student product differs from the commercial AIM Pro product only in terms of the numerical problem size & geometry limits. The errors you are sharing don't immediately point to those limits being hit, so something else is wrong here. 

On my personal R18.0 AIM Student installation I'm able to see and interact with "Physics Options" AND "Electromagnetic Conditions", so it is unusual that you don't see these options in your installation! Here's my screenshot:

Whereas you see:

 

I'll forward this over to Ming Yao for his review. 

Hang in there.

 

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