[cfxmar]

Hello to everybody,

I have been running a simulation with CFX 11 for one week and, for some reason I don´t know, I cannot access to CFX Post to save the results and stop the simulation but I know it´s still running.
I would like to know if there is any way to stop the running without loosing the results. Perhaps killing it directly from DOS?

Thank you in advance.

[mhsr]

You can use the CFX command cfx5stop to stop the solver after the current iteration using:
cfx5stop.exe -dir <directory_path_where_solver_runs>

The path name of the current solver run usually looks like Name-of-Simulation_<Number-of-Run>.dir

[sans]

Hi, Check the help files for stopping a run from the command line. Your can also put a stp file in the wrking dir.
-Sans

[cfxmar]

Thank you, Martin.
When I am in the directory path I write:
cfx5stop.exe -dir Nameofsimulation_numberofrun.dir
¿Is it correct?

[mhsr]

You don't have to be in the directory. But better give the full path as argument to the -dir option...just in case there's another solver running

[cfxmar]

Martin, thanks a lot. Your information was really helpful.

[ijk]

What is an stp file like - I would like to use them to stop my runs?

[stumpy]

Create a file named "stp" inside the run directory (the one ending in .dir). Nothing in the file, no file extension, just name it "stp" and that's it.

[ijk]

Thanks that did the trick.