{"id":161619,"date":"2023-01-25T07:16:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/when-creating-pictures-or-animations-in-batch-an-error-about-the-hardcopy-window-is-obtained\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:35:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:35:36","slug":"when-creating-pictures-or-animations-in-batch-an-error-about-the-hardcopy-window-is-obtained","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/when-creating-pictures-or-animations-in-batch-an-error-about-the-hardcopy-window-is-obtained\/","title":{"rendered":"When creating pictures or animations in batch an error about the hardcopy-window is obtained."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a batch run a picture or animation shall be created, i.e. with the following command. > display savepic press_%f.png  This might result in the following error: Error: hardcopy-window: No active window. Error Object: #f  Output of graphics, i.e. pictures, does require an active window. This is not available when running a solver in batch mode. This situation can be handled by starting the solver with the following arguments as start options: -gu -driver null  For example  fluent 3ddp -gu -driver null -i journal_batch.jou >&#038; outputfile &#038;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-161619","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-18-2","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-fluent-post-processing","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-post-processing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["1-24-2023  20:20:06"],"_btv_view_count":["1125"],"siebel_km_number":["2052770"],"product_version":["18.2"],"km_published_date":["2018-01-05T15:21:32.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["FLUENT"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}