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[Luc Bernhardt]

Hi, I'm having some problems solving a static structure simulation. 

I'm using ANSYS Student on a Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro chip via Parallels VM. I used this video to install it:

?si=EnaYI38bHPFxT0v7. Workbench and Mechanical work fine but as soon as I want to solve a simulation, this error occurs:  
"*** ERROR ***                           CP =       0.812   TIME= 17:33:52
 An unexpected error ( SIG$ILL ) has occurred...  MAPDL internal data    
 has been corrupted.  MAPDL is unable to recover and will terminate.     
 Previously saved files are unaffected.  Please send the data leading    
 to this operation to your technical support provider, as this will      
 allow ANSYS, Inc to improve the program." 

I checked the memory, GPU and processor settings as in other forum threads. I have the latest ANSYS Student R1 version, downloaded on June 23. However, nothing seems to work in my case. What should I do to solve this problem? Has anyone encountered this problem before? 

[Rob]

The various Windows emulators work/fail as patches and software are updated. So you may find updating the OS & drivers to help, also check on here as it's a question that comes up on occasion. The Ansys tools are built for Windows (Full & Student versions) and some flavours of Linux/UNIX (Full version) but may work on unsupported platforms. However as the solvers use a few less common libraries and functions their use can be less successful than running PC games on a Mac.