June 5, 2024 at 6:55 pm
Ace R
Subscriber

Sadly still not fixed.

 Before rebooting here was my CMD prompt:

I also want to share this Windows Error Reporting message that occured several time in the inbox along with that AnsysWBU one, which lets me think it may not be unrelated to Mechanical's crashes. Hopefully it could be another resource to look for the solution (as I skim through, it is rather WB-related): 

6/5/2024 6:39 PM    Windows Error Reporting    Fault bucket 1873662918493159331, type 4 Event Name: APPCRASH Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: AnsysWBU.exe P2: 24.2023.331.1 P3: 6564cee6 P4: Ans.Simulation.ObjectsCOM.dll P5: 24.2023.331.1 P6: 6564b7f6 P7: c000041d P8: 00000000018a92f4 P9: P10: Attached files: \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.21074ce2-9800-4f91-88d9-311684cef5ce.tmp.mdmp \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.24d82526-59a6-45c0-9456-040e252c70e8.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.9c7e84bf-7ec0-4cf7-8379-2c85e70cca87.tmp.csv \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.8a890dc9-c5f4-401a-afb1-bd28ae62f27c.tmp.txt \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.5be57cbc-450b-471f-bc9d-291f967fbd67.tmp.xml These files may be available here: \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_AnsysWBU.exe_6afd9818093251a92a5b40b269702dacb8c33c_1a936224_219dd841-dea5-449a-888c-a1b712de246a Analysis symbol: Rechecking for solution: 0 Report Id: 46eb6eb2-1904-4274-aef3-1bd806afcc91 Report Status: 268435456 Hashed bucket: 44aa949eed6fb0728a00967f4d9b3fa3 Cab Guid: 0

Also, though very probably trivial, I'd like to remention that I had no file path in this Mechanical Directory "File> Options... > Analysis Settings and Solutions > Analysis data management > Scratch solver" which seemed to cause the problem for some. I created a purely arbitrary null folder on my desktop and assigned as path. I really doubt it's the cause of the problem, but better safe I guess.

I'd also mention that the geometries I tried to import were, an IGS file (SW), scdoc, and dsco. I have to select "All files" as type of files rather than "Mechanical Files" where they do not appear. If loading them from WB then opening Mechanical, I will have that pop-up beofre Mechanical crashing. If importing them from Mechanical, they won't be attached but the app doesn't crash and have a pop-up until I manually close it. Trivial details in sum, but I'm trying to optimize my chances of solving this problem before tomorrow.

 

Thanks again