We are running SW Premium 2010 SP4. When we display a results plot for a simulation, select "Probe Result" and then select "On selected entities" we can then click on a model face and then click "Update". Sometimes we get a list of the values for that surface and other times the box is just remains blank and the "Update" box turns gray. Anyone run into this or have an explanation for why this happens?
I'll have to try "List Selected" the next time I run into this problem...
I hadn't paid attention to that option before.
Tried "List Selected" and it has the same problems. Closed and reopend the file but still no change. Below is a screen shot of the Probe Result dialog box. There is a face selected, Update was clicked and then the Update button went gray and no results showed up. This happens typically on just one surface within the model but not always the same surface. Sometimes there is no problem at all.
I experienced the same.
A hybrid model was built from surface and solid bodies of a SW assembly. One specific part contained 2 solid bodies, while another ones had several surface bodies. Shell elements were created from the surface bodies automatically and not from the solids by defining at selected faces of solid bodies.
In case of shell elements there was no problem. I could list result on any surface or edge.
In case of solid bodies I could not list result on any surface if:
- it belonged to a multi body part and the surface belonged to not the first body
- it belonged to a multi body part and the surface was in connection with another surface of not the first body of the same part
I know it sounds craze but it is true.
Solution.
In case of surface bodies, there is nothing to do. It works always.
In case of solid bodies you are to avoid using multi body parts. After I cloned the original part and left only one body for each part I was able to list result on any surface.
what version and service pack? can you post a sample file?
SW 2011x64 SP5.0 and Simulation Premium
I had already deleted/destroyed the original file...
I just rebuilt the study and now it works even with multi bodied part. Sometimes it does other times it denies. The only difference is that now I changed the input geometry while add-in was off. At the time of my previous comment I split the single body when I already set up the study and tried to update all components.
Anyhow, using the simplest input geometry usually reduces surprises.
If you e-mail me I can send the files, but now it works.
if it works, it sounds like a workflow or file specific issue or study specific issue. when the problem comes back, i'd say post it using the "Advanced editor" option. happy simulating!
I'm having the same problem. About 50% of the time I have one surface in my model that will not update when using list selected. I can probe all over it with no problem. Very frustrating when the simulations are having to solve over night.
Did anyone come up with a solution to this or a way to avoid it?
Jarad how do you post using the Advanced editior option?
Cheers
the advanced editor is in the top right hand corner when you're posting.
your problem sounds workflow or file or study specific. if you can post, we can probably provide more information. otherwise i'd talk to your reseller about it. for starters, i'd double check how many models this is happening to and if you reduce the mesh..etc if there are any changes. remember that probe goes to the nearest node, list selected has to work on the surface. if your mesh is coarse and that surface doesn't actually exist from a mesh perspective, you probably will have trouble using list selected on it.
at minimum, post some screenshots of what you're seeing.
I am having similar problems on occaissions. Recently n SWX 2013 sp3 I had a model where it all worked fine. I then made a couple more studies and then had to go back to the earlier one. On certain surfaces no data would display. However, en edge adjacent to the surface I was trying to selec worked fine. Other surfaces in the model worked fine as well. Just the ones I was actually interested in would not work. I just lived without it.
I am having this problem as well. It will work on some faces, not others. I can probe a point and get results there, but not overall results for a face, and of course it's the face I need results on. It is not a multibody part, and it was not made with separate bodies combined into one at any point either. There are also no surface bodies. This is beyond frustrating. I cannot share the file due to confidentiality agreements.
When you plot results there are results on the face but you can't prove them or list select? Can you at least post a screen shot of the results on the face and what you are seeing in the list selected and prove dialogs?
After having the same problem with different parts my final conclusions are:
- Source of the problem is some malfunction with updating changed geometry of a simulation already started.
- I never allow automatic update.
- I try to plan the simulation detailed in advance and finish the geometry before I start to define study.
- If I run into the same problem and it denies to probe results after updating study, I define a new study, paste and copy tree items, delete study files and rerun simulation. Usually it works.
BR,
AP
Hi Gordon,
I can't say I have ever noticed that and I am still running 2010, though I am on SP5. Does it do that same thing when you use "List Selected"? It is the same thing but a different button in Simulation. Could you provide a screen shot or something to kind of help illustrate this?
Ryan W.