{"id":51411,"date":"2021-01-19T08:55:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-shows-only-blank-grey-screen\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:55:21","slug":"ansys-mechanical-shows-only-blank-grey-screen","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-shows-only-blank-grey-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys Mechanical shows only blank grey screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>Hello, I am using ANSYS 2020 R2 to follow a tutorial on an online course that instructs me to double click &#039;Model&#039; after attaching the &#039;Geometry&#039;. The Mechanical windows opens but it only shows grey screen, meanwhile the Workbench windows show &#039;Starting Mechanical&#8230;&#039; on the lower left corner. And after I close the Mechanical window, it has this error:<\/p>\n<p>Error while waiting for Mechanical initialization to complete. Either the application crashed or Workbench lost communication with it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedExternal embedImage\">\n<div class=\"embedExternal-content\">\n<a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/AOR0E2L6APIC\/2021-01-19-281-29.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/AOR0E2L6APIC\/2021-01-19-281-29.png\" alt=\"2021-01-19 (1).png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-51411","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["23679"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":["11??"],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1054"],"_bbp_subscription":["232102"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["51411"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["197","185226"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["139695"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["139695"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-01-22 12:01:56"]},"test":"mint"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/51411","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\/51411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}