{"id":35823,"date":"2019-06-07T14:33:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/another-work-bench-only-opening-a-grey-window-resolved\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T14:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:33:35","slug":"another-work-bench-only-opening-a-grey-window-resolved","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/another-work-bench-only-opening-a-grey-window-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Work bench only opening a grey window [RESOLVED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am following along with the video tutorials from cornell and get to the step where I double click model to open Mechanical, a grey window appears and nothing else, when exited this error is shown,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Error while waiting for Mechanical initialization to complete. Either the application crashed or Workbench los communication with it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I have read similar problems in other posts how ever none of the fixes worked for me. I think it maybe due to installing on a different drive to that the OS is on?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I have included screenshots of things requested in other threads.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Hope someone can help as Im also starting a university course where I need to use Ansys.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/b6551150-ea55-427e-b653-aa6500ea5de8\/93652e2c-eeca-446c-a844-aa6500efb842_dxdiag.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/b6551150-ea55-427e-b653-aa6500ea5de8\/4cf7d123-132f-48c7-a883-aa6500efcd64_dxdiag2.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/b6551150-ea55-427e-b653-aa6500ea5de8\/853a3ac7-9403-4548-a4f0-aa6500efe4c9_ping.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-35823","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["7995"],"_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":["1780"],"_bbp_subscription":["240546","27429"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["35823"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["27429","157480","165866","244921"],"_bbp_voice_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count":["28"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["237476"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["237476"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-10-12 15:16:23"]},"test":"parsleyneale"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/35823","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\/35823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}