[Christian.Stemmer]

Hy,

we have been struggling with an error trying to open DesignModeller from the Workbench (via Static Structural) double clicking on the "Geometry" tab.
The machine runs on SL65 (identical to RHEL 65).
The following error message appear in the .ansys/...log-files
[GeomEditorTimeOutMAddin] Unable to start the geometry editor.
It takes about 5 minutes, until the error popps up.
We are in contact with ANSYS support which has redirected me to CADFEM without finding a solution. We have checked many possibilities regarding licensing issues. It works on Opensuse 13.1 and on Win7, so I don't think it's a license issue (which is administred organisation wide).
Did anyone experience the same error or issue? Any suggestions?
We have had this error on that machine as of Nov. 6 2014. Before (last working date Oct. 23), it worked fine. We newly installed 15.0.7 to no avail.
Something that is striking is that on Nov. 4th, more than 50 graphics-related packages had been updated (I can supply the lengthy list if needed).

Thanks for your pennies,
Christian

[Christian.Stemmer]

browsing through the ANSYS forums, we found the following hint, which works now:

Knowledge Resources: Solutions

#2037921
Problem Description: Any Mechanical application - Mechanical, Meshing, Design-Modeler & FEModeler will not run after a Red Hat 6.x update: RHSA-2014:1436. Starting Design Modeler from WorkBench simply hangs for two to three minutes and then presents an error: "Unable to start the geometry editor." Mechanical also fails to start. Platform - Redhat6.x or derivatives

Product Family: Installation, Licensing & Systems
Product: ANSYS Mechanical
Version: 15.0
Area: Installation Process
SubArea: Other
Last Updated: Nov 14 2014

Answer:
Resolution:

The fix is a simple rename of a folder. In the path below rename the X11 folder to Old-X11

/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/MainWin/linx64/mw/lib-amd64-linux/

[leelamadhuri]

Hi

Even I have the same problem "Unable to start the geometry editor".And I work on windows 64 .So could you please suggest me way to solve this.

Thank you.

[Holger Steffen]

Hello Christian,

I've the same problem.
I've installed ANSYS 18.0 on CentOS7 (which is supported offically). I can start the workbench, but after creating a ,static structural' and double clicking onto the geometry I get after ca. 1min. the message:
"unable to start the geometry editor"
I renamed
/ansys_inc/v180/commonfiles/MainWin/linx64/mw/lib-amd64_linux/X11SLES, but with no sucess.

Does anyone know a solution?

[Holger Steffen]

OK
i've solved it for me:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ansys_inc/v180/Framework/bin/Linux64/Mesa

was the solution ....

Greetings, Holger

[SGrozny]

Hi,
how do you do?
i just look your post on december 2014.
what are the steps to fix "unable to start geometry editor"?

sorry to disturb, Thanks

Sincerely,
Sahidah Grozny, ID

[HamidIran]

Thank you very much.

[rajanivas]

Originally Posted by Holger Steffen

OK
i've solved it for me:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ansys_inc/v180/Framework/bin/Linux64/Mesa

was the solution ....

Greetings, Holger

I am facing the same problem. what i have to do in the particular "Mesa" folder?

[jonah0830]

Dears
You can find a file .bashrc in the your user directory.
Edit this file adding the line :

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/ansys_inc/v180/Framework/bin/Linux64/Mesa"

ad the end of this file.

[Holger Steffen]

Or you use a script for starting, as I did:



printf "\nansys wird gestartet\n"
#Arbeitsverzeichnis
cd /home/xxx/yyy

# Die Variable muss unter Nvidia gesetzt werden
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ansys_inc/v180/Framework/bin/Linux64/Mesa /usr/ansys_inc/v180/Framework/bin/Linux64/runwb2

#starte ansys


printf "\nSkript wird beendet\n"
sleep 20

[elibaroni]

I solved the problem after one week of million tries on everything.

Check the settings of Firewall. I had to disabled the FIrewall option and the problem disappear.

Hope it will help

Eli

[fjramireg]

Originally Posted by jonah0830

Dears
You can find a file .bashrc in the your user directory.
Edit this file adding the line :

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/ansys_inc/v180/Framework/bin/Linux64/Mesa"

ad the end of this file.

Yes, I solve the problem doing this in CentOS 7 with Ansys 18.2

 $ sudo nano ~/.bashrc

and I copy and paste this line

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ansys_inc/v180/Framework/bin/Linux64/Mesa

at the end of the file. Now, the DesignModeler open without any problem.

Best.