{"id":285068,"date":"2023-05-22T07:10:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/meshing-time-with-12-cpus-setting-and-slow-views-refresh-rate\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T07:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:10:28","slug":"meshing-time-with-12-cpus-setting-and-slow-views-refresh-rate","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/meshing-time-with-12-cpus-setting-and-slow-views-refresh-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"meshing time with 12 CPUs setting and slow views refresh rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Hello everybody,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">I am doing FEA of a wind turbine rotor hub with an academic licence of Workbench (windows-10 workstation: 32 cores, Xeon 2.4 GHz, 512 RAM GB, Nvidia RTX 5000).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">I am new to Ansys Mechanical and would like to have the following points clarified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000;margin: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">1) I have the <em>Distributed<\/em> checkbox checked and 12 Cores set in the ribbon <em>Home\/Solve<\/em> area (12 CPUs are the maximum allowed by my licence), and the meshing time for an ~1 million elements mesh is half a hour: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-indent: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Is it too long or not? I was expecting a faster meshing with 12 CPUs&#8230; Am I, actually, using 12 CPUs also for meshing, with that setting, or not? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-indent: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">If I am using 12 CPUs, are 1~1.6 million elements considered such a big mesh? Actually, after these meshes are done, the FEA calculations terminate in ~ five minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-indent: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">What are the typical elements numbers to judge an Ansys Mechanical mesh coarse, middle-size, big, untractably big (for my PC specs)? <br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000;margin: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">2) I am experiencing rather slow graphic-window refresh rates after mouse clicks or settings in these two circumstances:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-indent: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">&nbsp;when I select to view mesh elements with a specific value of quality metrics (e.g., skewness)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-indent: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">&nbsp;when I create a cross plane, and when I switch between a cross plane and the full-model view<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"> In the first case I may have to wait for more than ten seconds before having the view updated, while in the second case I have to wait 3~5 seconds for the switch. Is this normal for my settings and PC specs, or I can improve these refresh rates with some more settings?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000;margin: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Thank you for your time and attention,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Henny<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-285068","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-mechanicalworkbench-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["258654","5977","3937"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.47.145.55"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2298"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["285068"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["3937","5977","258654"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["286453"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["286453"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-05-31 02:48:12"]},"test":"bottini-hennyioes-saga-u-ac-jp"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/285068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/285068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}