Trying to run a Frequency analysis, but every time I try to run it, I get this error.
All of my materials are fully defined. I have triple checked them and the required fields highlighted in red all have the correct data.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
Josh,
I have to ask, how could a cut cause the software to think there was a problem with material definitions?
Jerry Steiger
Jerry,
I'm as confused as you are.
I was running a study on an idler assembly, and there was a slight interference of around 0.5 micron between the pulley shell and outer race of the bearing. The bearing was downloaded from the supplier website, so I assumed they were dumb models and quickly used a cut-extrude on the outside of the bearing race to remove any interference. I was going through everything to isolate the cause, and noticed that this part of the bearing (outer race) wasn't dumb, and actually used a revolve to create it. So on a hunch I removed the cut I made and changed the sketch inside the revolve instead. This was the only change I made. Just before doing it, I tried running the study and received the same "material is not defined" error. After doing this and nothing else, I tried running it again and it worked.
So your guess is as good as mine.
I keep getting the same error! I re-checked all of my Cut Extrudes and I still get the error! This is very frustrating... What was the nature of the Cut Extrude that did not work? This is not the first time I have encountered this problem and sometimes deleting the study and re-doing it is the only solution...
OK have been playing with the component bonding and have found that it makes this error go away at times. I selected all the comonents and bonded them and it cleared the error.
My model was perfect with good contact before and global bonded selected but doing this seemed to clear up the error...very strange but well so is Microsoft code...
It may be that some of the automatic bonding routines create orphaned components that do not show up on the tree and also have no material definition... Doing a screen selection of all components seems to capture these and reintegrate them when rebonded... My best guess...
Hope they can fix this issue for the future... I may not want global bonding next time!
When you changed your cut extrude it likely changed how these routines tried to bond the components.
Got it working.
Turned out to be a Cut-Extrude was causing the problem.