{"id":430929,"date":"2025-05-06T23:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-discovery-freezeslags-so-much-when-certain-tasks-are-performed\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T01:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:50:56","slug":"ansys-discovery-freezeslags-so-much-when-certain-tasks-are-performed","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-discovery-freezeslags-so-much-when-certain-tasks-are-performed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys Discovery – Enclosure Tool, Freezes\/lags when certain tasks are performed"},"content":{"rendered":"

<p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p>UPDATED, I’ve partially figured out something is wrong with my Full Car model. But I haven’t figured out a solution to fix my model. SEE BELOW<\/strong><p><p><p><p><p>Dear Ansys team and fellow users,<\/p><p>On certain functions, in this case using the Enclosure tool<\/strong>. I need to make an enclosure for CFD simulation. Using Solidworks 2024 Assembly document (.SLDASM)<\/strong> However, after inserting the enclosure dismensions in and clicking on the green arrow, the loading circle mouse icon appears, and it doesn’t seem to be able to ‘unfreeze’ itself.  Tried 3 times, without any success. Had to force close Discovery via Task Manager.p><p>\"\"<\/p><p>Other functions, such as using the Interfence tool, it takes a long time for the loading mouse icon to disappear. Other function is using the pull tool to give body panels of my car some width, it’s very laggy. <br>Overall, I find Ansys discovery slow.<\/p><p>Using Ansys 2024 R2 student, <br>My laptop specs:<\/p><p>13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13850HX<br>4000 ada 12GB<br>64GB DDR5 RAM<br>1TB SSD (~1\/3 used)<br>Windows 11 Pro <\/p><p><\/p><p>Using Discovery application with tonnes of Chrome pages open, and not straining my laptop.<\/p><p>\"\"<br><br>Thanks,<\/p><p>Kelvin<\/em><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><br><br>Update:<\/strong><\/p><p>I installed Ansys 2024 R2 on my other laptop (sufficient hardware to run Ansys), used the same car model as I used previously. The same error occurs.<\/p><p>I also tried with a simple shape, I used a cylinder, and then tried to put an enclosure around it, the same error occurs.<\/p><p>I will try Ansys 2025 R1, and shall update again.<\/p><br><br>Update 2<\/strong>:<\/p><p>I just tried using Discovery from Ansys 2025 R1 Student on my first laptop (of aforementioned), the same thing still happens!<\/p><p>\"\"<\/p><p>I was thinking… it might be an issue with my Full Car Model, because using the model from preparation-using-ansys-discovery-lesson-1<\/a> , I was able to create a wind tunnel enclosure.<\/p><p>\"\"<\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><p> <\/p><p>Could non-so-perfect body surfaces be the issues?<\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-430929","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-discovery","topic-tag-ansys-freezing-1","topic-tag-freezes-2","topic-tag-loading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_topic_id":["430929"],"_bbp_subscription":["545639","39507","552061"],"_bbp_author_ip":["203.166.255.203"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["431758"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["431758"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-05-16 07:08:07"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_engagement":["545639","39507","552061"],"_btv_view_count":["501"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_last":["545639"],"_bbp_revision_log":["a:12:{i:430930;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:430945;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:430951;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:430952;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:430977;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:6:\"Update\";}i:430988;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:430989;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:430991;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:430992;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:430995;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:430996;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:431020;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:545639;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}}"]},"test":"kelvin-k-kongstudent-uts-edu-au"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/430929","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":12,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/430929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431020,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/430929\/revisions\/431020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}