{"id":369289,"date":"2024-05-30T21:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T21:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-wont-open-and-stays-on-blank-gray-screen-path-environment-va\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T21:55:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T21:55:34","slug":"ansys-mechanical-wont-open-and-stays-on-blank-gray-screen-path-environment-va","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-wont-open-and-stays-on-blank-gray-screen-path-environment-va\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSYS Mechanical won’t open and stays on Blank Gray Screen (Path environment va)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello there,<\/p>\n

There were a few previous inquiry posts about this specific problem for older ANSYS versions. I have the Student version of ANSYS 2024 R1, and when conducting a simple Static Analysis on Workbench, Discovery would work but Mechanical would encounter that classic “Error while waiting for Mechanical initialization to complete. Either the application crashed or Workbench lost communication with it.” <\/em>error. On a side note, I’ve tried to open software like Fluent, CFX, Optislang, and so forth and they all worked without exception when on their own. Though when meshing from workbench, thus requiring Mechanical as I understand, same problem descrined previously would occur. <\/p>\n

I had the same problem a few months ago on ANSYS 2023 R1 (on the same machine, which could be a helpful detail), and it was just Mechanical (which ironically is the one I need the most) that didn’t open. I gave up and preferred to go for other FEA alternatives. But I will be needing ANSYS for a course next semester so it’s now all different.<\/p>\n

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A post that I found particularly pertinent to the matter is the following: \/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-wont-open-correctly-stays-on-blank-grey-screen\/<\/p>\n

In it, ANSYS employee “tsiriaks” shows a maneuver that seemed to help OP solve the issue. It was presumed that the issue was related to the Path environment variable<\/strong><\/span>. I have reinstalled ANSYS 2024 R1 many times without solving the issue. Update my driver to the latest version, problem persists.<\/p>\n

That is, I couldn’t help myself with that maneuver because instructions were specfic to that user (Original Poster). <\/p>\n

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It was first asked whether there were “any .err file under E:Installed softwareAnsysANSYS IncANSYS Student  ?”. I couldn’t find a way to access that directory as I don’t have an E: driver, nor did I find a part in the thread that insinuated that OP had an E: drive. Tried to look for the files mentioned in the directory but didn’t find them.I’m probably stuck in a very trivial cul-de-sac, so I beg your indulgence if it happens to be the case.<\/p>\n

Secondly, it was asked to execture the following commands in the CMD prompt: <\/p>\n

“set PATH=C:WINDOWSsystem32;C:WINDOWS;C:WINDOWSSystem32Wbem<\/p>\n

E:<\/p>\n

“E:Installed softwareAnsysANSYS IncANSYS Studentv193FrameworkbinWin64runwb2.exe”  “<\/p>\n

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Here again, it’s essentially the same problem, I don’t have an E: drive. Now, knowing all of this, what should I do instead in my case? I will leave attached  screenshots of “ping %computername% -4” command, DirectX Diagnostic window, and Device Manager (expanding Display Adapter) as it was the sole data shared by the user (I doubt they’ll be helpful though).<\/p>\n

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Thank you very much!<\/p>\n

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