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Tiny bit of context since this is my first post here.<\/p>\n
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PhD student here with a supervisor who has trained me in APDL (no experience with workbench). We use APDL purely because we need extremely complex geometries for modelling gravitational wave detector suspensions.<\/p>\n
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I’m studying next gen, cryogenic, detectors, so have moved from structural to thermal analysis of these suspensions.<\/p>\n
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As I’ve been taught well (I hope), I’m starting on extremely simple models to conduct transient thermal analysis (we’ve just finished some simple steady-state models which match theory well).<\/p>\n
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I started with an ANSYS worked example 12 for thermal analysis from the following link.(https:\/\/sites.ualberta.ca\/~wmoussa\/A…Cond\/Print.pdf)<\/p>\n
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All works out as expected AND when solving, I can view the graphical solution tracker to observe convergence.<\/p>\n
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I’m slowly changing this model, one at a time to match geometries and conductivities I’m interested in. I was playing with it (remotely) with my supervisor and sure enough, we solved some solution and got the graphical display when solving.<\/p>\n
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We decided a way forward, so I came back the next day after shutting down my laptop (Windows 10, Core i7 Dell Latitude 7490). When I came back and either tried previous models, new models or even repeated the above example (from complete scratch) I no longer get the graphical solver. I can’t see the convergence solver (which I find extremely useful for my own models to see approximately when it reaches steady state\/where the interesting physics is).<\/p>\n
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Having plenty of experience with APDL on modern Windows machines, I know it can sometimes just be “funny” especially with graphics.<\/p>\n
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I’ve tried setting \/GST,ON,ON as well as ticking ON to Grph Solu Track in output ctrls (which always seems to be off by default and doesn’t change with the former command line input).<\/p>\n
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Any help appreciated and if you need more info, don’t hesitate to ask!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-43248","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["15429"],"_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":["939"],"_bbp_subscription":["250486"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["43248"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["200","176321"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["112880"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["112880"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-04-29 06:28:59"]},"test":"geddolls"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/43248","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\/43248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}