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Either the application crashed or Workbench lost communication with it (No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it &quot;<\/p>\n<p>Since it hasn&#039;t been working, I tried opening Ansys mechanical separately, which it does, however it won&#039;t import any geometry.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#039;t have any firewall or antivirus blocking the app.<\/p>\n<p>Does someone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-168206","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I recently downloaded the academic version of Ansys 2022. It has been working well until recently when trying to use Ansys mechanical from within the workbench. Ansys mechanical will always crash, and on the workbench the next message displays:&quot;Unable to clean addins in Mechanical. 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