{"id":42831,"date":"2020-04-16T05:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/unable-to-submit-ls-dyna-analysis-through-mechanical-apdl-product-launcher\/"},"modified":"2020-04-16T05:44:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T05:44:06","slug":"unable-to-submit-ls-dyna-analysis-through-mechanical-apdl-product-launcher","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/unable-to-submit-ls-dyna-analysis-through-mechanical-apdl-product-launcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable to submit LS-DYNA analysis through Mechanical APDL Product Launcher."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to <strong>perform explicit analysis using LS-DYNA<\/strong>. Though I know there is a possibility&nbsp;of submitting analysis via Workbench (Workbench LS-DYNA), I want to only <strong>export keyword file (.k file)<\/strong>, then do some sort of adjustment,&nbsp;and then <strong>run it via Mechanical APDL Product Launcher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So to do that in Workbench I activate Beta options and Unsupported features through Tools-&gt;Options-&gt;Appearance and use the block of analysis named <strong>Explicit Dynamics (LS-DYNA Export) (Unsupported)<\/strong>.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Then I simply&nbsp;build my model, press solve, open solver files directory, copy keyword file into some other folder I want my results etc. have in, and go into Mechanical APDL Product Launcher. There I set the <strong>environment to LS-DYNA Solver<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>set Analysis type to <strong>Typical LS-DYNA Analysis<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>set license to&nbsp;<strong>Ansys Academic Research&nbsp;LS-DYNA<\/strong>, set the working directory containing keyword file and set the keyword file.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Then I hit run and get following error:&nbsp;<strong>Error connecting to the service<\/strong>. There is more, so I am <strong>uploading a picture of the error message.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Additional info: when using&nbsp;<strong>Explicit Dynamics (LS-DYNA Export) (Unsupported)<\/strong> via Mechanical (and it works fine, also Workbench LS-DYNA works fine and calculations are running),<strong> I can see my computer on a licencse list<\/strong> that I am using Ansys Academic Research LS-DYNA license.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Any idea? If there is additional info needed, I can provide it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Vaclav<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-42831","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["15011"],"_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"],"_btv_view_count":["1258"],"_bbp_subscription":["246778"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["42831"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["157480","172491"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["8"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["112511"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["112511"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-04-25 00:28:41"]},"test":"vvcz"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/42831","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\/42831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}