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Preferencescategories. Item(&#8220;CATNAME_DesignModeIer&#8221;). PreferencesGroups;  One of the following steps can fix the issue: 1) The issue might be related to a corrupted settings file in the users settings. These are found in the folder     %APPDATA%ANSYS or    C:Users<username>AppDataRoamingAnsys in which you need to replace <username> with your username. In this folder subfolders can be found for each installed ANSYS version. If you have not done changes to these folders, then you can simply delete (or rename) the folder for the ANSYS version in which the issue appeared. The folder will be re-generated automatically.   2) If the above does not fix the issue, then it might be related to a corrupted Preferences file. 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