Flow Simulation Crash with Trajectories

D.Castle · June 30, 2009, 16:36

Hello again,

This question is more of a curiosity for me than anything else. I have a lot of problems with SolidWorks and Flow Simulation crashing when I try to insert a Flow Trajectory into the model. About half the time it works just fine, but other times the program wants no part of it. Does anyone else have this problem? Are there certain conditions which make it more likely to crash?

If anyone else has this problem, I'd love to know.

Matt.Hieatt · July 13, 2009, 05:14

Hello

I am not a technical support person and I work for Mentor so we dont officially support FloWorks - but this problem sometimes happens with FloEFD and when it does it is generally thought to be some form of conflict with your graphics card. If you try turning down the acceleration on the card it may help.

murat · August 5, 2009, 15:50

Number of emit points causes the problem. You can decrase your number of lines or arrows.

Another is may be you works wrong variables. For example if you do heat transfer analysis and you want to create streamlines and you don't switch from solid temperature to fluid temperature, Floworks crashs.

June 30, 2009, 16:36	Flow Simulation Crash with Trajectories	#1
D.Castle New Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 17	Hello again, This question is more of a curiosity for me than anything else. I have a lot of problems with SolidWorks and Flow Simulation crashing when I try to insert a Flow Trajectory into the model. About half the time it works just fine, but other times the program wants no part of it. Does anyone else have this problem? Are there certain conditions which make it more likely to crash? If anyone else has this problem, I'd love to know.

July 13, 2009, 05:14	Floworks Crashing	#2
Matt.Hieatt New Member Matt Hieatt Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 17	Hello I am not a technical support person and I work for Mentor so we dont officially support FloWorks - but this problem sometimes happens with FloEFD and when it does it is generally thought to be some form of conflict with your graphics card. If you try turning down the acceleration on the card it may help.

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August 5, 2009, 15:50		#3
murat New Member murat Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 17 Rep Power: 17	Number of emit points causes the problem. You can decrase your number of lines or arrows. Another is may be you works wrong variables. For example if you do heat transfer analysis and you want to create streamlines and you don't switch from solid temperature to fluid temperature, Floworks crashs.