{"id":171126,"date":"2023-06-05T07:05:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/when-i-try-to-open-a-project-i-obtain-the-following-message-the-design-point-file-to-be-loaded-does-not-exist-designpoint-wbdp-is-it-possible-to-retrieve-all-the-information-to-open-fluent\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:30:06","slug":"when-i-try-to-open-a-project-i-obtain-the-following-message-the-design-point-file-to-be-loaded-does-not-exist-designpoint-wbdp-is-it-possible-to-retrieve-all-the-information-to-open-fluent","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/when-i-try-to-open-a-project-i-obtain-the-following-message-the-design-point-file-to-be-loaded-does-not-exist-designpoint-wbdp-is-it-possible-to-retrieve-all-the-information-to-open-fluent\/","title":{"rendered":"When I try to open a project I obtain the following message: The design point file to be loaded does not exist: &#8230; designPoint.wbdp. Is it possible to retrieve all the information to open Fluent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main problem is that some files are missing. You need to find in the project folder a file with *.mechdb extension and follow the next steps:   &#8211; After finding the *.mechdb file, duplicate this folder and change this file extension to *.mechdat   &#8211; Open workbench and upload this file: File &#8211;> Import&#8211;> .mechdat   &#8211; open the box with the geometry\/mesh and export the mesh to a known extension. (*.msh is you want to open Fluent)   Open a new project or add a new box with Fluent to work with the retrieved mesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-171126","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4431","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general-fluent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2\/6\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["2883"],"siebel_km_number":["2042880"],"product_version":["17"],"km_published_date":["2016-08-09T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["FLUENT"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/171126","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\/171126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}