Fluent Meshing Grayscreening

- September 26, 2023 at 1:12 am
  
  Julian Cooper
  Subscriber
  
  Hey, when I'm running fluent through workbench I'm having an issue with the meshing. Geometry is fine, I can make my shape in SpaceClaim (can't open Discovery or DesignModeler without it crashing though) and it gets sent to meshing. When I try to open meshing all I get is a gray screen and workbench says it's still trying to open meshing. I've also tried this on a virtual computer through my school and somehow it works perfectly, but I need this to work on my local computer for file reasons. Last year some other people had this same issue and it never got resolved (/forum/forums/topic/gray-screen-when-meshing-a-geometry-in-fluent/). If anyone can help that'd be great, I've already uninstalled and redownloaded Ansys.
- September 27, 2023 at 12:52 pm
  
  Rajeshwari Jadhav
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi Julian,
  Do you have the student version of Ansys application installed?
- September 27, 2023 at 10:08 pm
  
  Julian Cooper
  Subscriber
  
  I do, I downloaded it directly from Download Ansys Student | Workbench-based Simulation Tools
- September 29, 2023 at 9:02 am
  Rajeshwari Jadhav
  Ansys Employee
  Hi Julian,
  1. Clear the cache of the Fluent application by renaming the Ansys folder to Ansys.old (type in windows search bar %appdata% or C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Ansys), rename .cfx and fluent.conf folder(C:/Users/username) and relaunch the application.
  2. Can you please check if any antivirus/ security software is blocking the Ansys application?
  3. Can you please check the application logs?
  Go to START > Event Viewer > Expand the Windows Logs and choose Application, check if there is any error over there.
- October 1, 2023 at 7:15 pm
  
  Julian Cooper
  Subscriber
  
  Hi,
  I tried clearing the cache, but I couldn't find the .cfx folder to rename. I did rename the other two folders and relaunched but it didn't work.
  I don't believe I have any antivirus that's blocking Ansys, but is there a way for me to check?
  I did check the application logs and I couldn't find any errors that were being thrown by Ansys.
- October 3, 2023 at 5:47 pm
  
  Rajeshwari Jadhav
  Ansys Employee
  
  Can you try to update the graphics and check?
- October 9, 2023 at 7:46 pm
  
  Julian Cooper
  Subscriber
  
  Updated my drivers and still the same problem. I have a Radeon AMD RX 580, 4GB, does that affect this in any way?
- October 10, 2023 at 9:34 am
  
  Rajeshwari Jadhav
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi Julian,
  After importing a project for meshing, the options are grayed out? Also, send the screenshot of your fluent application once you import any project to it.
- October 12, 2023 at 10:50 pm
  
  Julian Cooper
  Subscriber
  
  Attached are the images. I load Fluent into WorkBench as a 2D geometry. Then I made a surface to pass to meshing which it says it did. Then I tried to open meshing and it won't load, but WorkBench says the status is "Starting Meshing". The solver works if I directly import a mesh, but I can't even view the mesh in meshing. Same thing for projects.
- October 29, 2023 at 8:33 am
  
  Julian Cooper
  Subscriber
  
  Hi are there any updates to this?