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  3. I use ICEM CFD inside Workbench and connect the ICEM CFD System to a CFX-System. Inside ICEM, the mesh looks good and has the correct size. However, when I open the CFX Setup cell, the mesh is scaled up by a factor of 10. What is the reason for this and how can I correct this issue?

I use ICEM CFD inside Workbench and connect the ICEM CFD System to a CFX-System. Inside ICEM, the mesh looks good and has the correct size. However, when I open the CFX Setup cell, the mesh is scaled up by a factor of 10. What is the reason for this and how can I correct this issue?

Tagged: 19.1, fluid-dynamics, General, icem-cfd, meshing, Solver output
    • April 5, 2023 at 2:33 pm
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      This could be due to the region/language settings on your computer. If you use region/language settings under Windows which do not use a dot as a decimal separator, but a comma, this messes up the automated mesh export from ICEM inside Workbench by using the wrong scale factor for the mesh export. To check if the mesh is indeed scaled wrongly during the mesh export in your case, you can check the ICEM logfile (located in the folder …dp0ICMICEMCFDICM.log in your workbench project). The call of the automated mesh export with the wrong scaling will look similar to the following: “C:/Program Files/ANSYS Inc/v190/icemcfd/win64_amd/icemcfd/output-interfaces/fluent6.exe” -dom “D:/data/mycase/dp0/ICM/ICEMCFD/ICM.uns” -bin -b “D:/data/mycase/dp0/ICM/ICEMCFD/ICM.fbc” -scale 10,10,10 “D:/data/mycase/dp0/ICM/ICEMCFD/ICM.msh” To resolve this issue, please switch to your region/language settings to English (with a dot as a decimal separator).

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