{"id":34658,"date":"2019-04-11T22:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-wont-open-correctly-stays-on-blank-grey-screen\/"},"modified":"2019-04-11T22:28:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:28:49","slug":"ansys-mechanical-wont-open-correctly-stays-on-blank-grey-screen","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-wont-open-correctly-stays-on-blank-grey-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys Mechanical wont open correctly, stays on blank grey screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #222222; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">Hi Guys,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; margin: 20px 0px 1.41575em; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">I am following the video tutorial and I am up to the stage where I double click &#8216;model&#8217; to open Ansys Mechanical. It opens a plain grey window but the program never materializes. After minutes of waiting (one a modern, powerful PC) I close the grey window and I get an error in the main workbench window that says:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; margin: 20px 0px 1.41575em; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">&#8221; Error while waiting for Mechanical initialization to complete. Either the application crashed or Workbench lost communication with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; margin: 20px 0px 1.41575em; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">Has anyone else had this issue and if so, how have they resolved it?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; margin: 20px 0px 1.41575em; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">Thanks in advance,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; margin: 20px 0px 1.41575em; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">Rhys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-34658","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["6830"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["3291"],"_bbp_subscription":["239770","279058"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["34658"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["157480","164453","176543","206886","279058"],"_bbp_voice_count":["5"],"_bbp_reply_count":["13"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["257339"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["257339"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-03-14 09:29:31"]},"test":"ausstudent"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/34658","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\/34658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}