I've gotten a good run out of my model, and I'm setting up the images for my Report. For some reason I'm getting the error message now "Database not found" as I try to activate my Displacement or Stress plots. I know the analysis ran, and I had these results available for viewing moments ago. How can I bring them back up?
I'm using SW SimPro 2013
Thanks.
I just experienced the same thing. After a +4 hour solving time period, the "Database not found" window appeared when I attempted to view any of the three plots in the results section. VERY disappointing.
i've seen a lot of customers get "database not found" in nonlinear only to find out they are getting that because they ran it previously and had one set of time values and then ran it again with different time values. when they create new plots they are fine. this is expected functionality but can see how it would be confusing. so i'd suggest nailing down if this is an actual software issue or if something else is happening.
I'm not running Simulation Premium so I cannot perform a nonlinear study. So that can't be the culprit.
need more info about the problem then. if the solver failed or crashed or solidworks crashed or you shut down without saving, that could also lead to the problem.
Nothing crashed or failed, as far as I can see. The solver finished its work. I then double-clicked the first of three studies and the message appeared.
sounds model/setup/computer/or version/service pack specific. if this is happening all the time, i'd connect with your reseller
we do a lot of simulations and almost always when this happens it ends up with a root cause that we can pinpoint and reproduce
It happened with only one of three static studies of the same file. The other two studies (with different contact sets and symmetry fixtures) solved quickly and produced reasonable results. Per my original post, the study that gave me trouble is the one where I specified a shrink fit between male and female threads. In the other two studies, I changed this contact to bonded.
My simulation is linear static, but with contact. Some bonded contacts, some with a gap.
My take on it at this point is the same as Jared, that some pointer somewhere on my PC is out of whack. The OS has not been renewed in almost 2 years. I ran the same model with the same setup on a different PC and got good results and no errors. I've since wiped my laptop, and made a fresh install of the OS and of SolidWorks2014. I'll see if this resolves the problem.
Hi Clark. Did your study include an assembly with a shrink fit contact?
Hi Tony,
No shrink fit in mine. Bonded and "no penetration" contact only.
In fact mine is a multi part .prt rather than assembly.
You will find dozens of support SPRs on this issue, many of them claiming the issue was "Fixed in SW{year} sp{number}". It still happens all the time, and I've not seen a way to reassociate the data. The model file and results file will be right where you left them, but it refuses to acknowledge the results file. You can copy the files to another directory to try again; I think I got that to work once, but it's tricky when working in a PDM like I am.
I'll add one data point. We're on SW2013 SP4 Premium 64 bit, with a single Enterprise PDM vault. At this time all the model and simulation files live in the same large folder.
Here are screen caps showing my simulation setup with the path to the results file, and the PDM folder showing the result file. This one only takes about 25 minutes, so I'm going to re-run it now. The customer was expecting data this morning, but we're just going to have to adjust his expectations.
there is no way to reassociate the data, there are some enhancements for adding this functionality though
if copying to another directory fixes the problem sometimes, i have a feeling there might be something up with your vault, generally we recommend to our customers to solve problems outside of the vault and then archive the data when they are done. this has been seen to be successful. this ensures that no workflows..etc have any influence on the results and the connection to the file.
generally when i get a "database not found error" it is my fault. i have either changed the name of something or lost the results or i have rerun and the time steps changed such that the time step i am requested is gone and i just need to create anew plot
I am getting a similar issue - I'm getting the "Failed to create temporary file. Please change Simulation work directory" message; here's my situation. We are on 2014, but we use PDM Workgroup at the moment. It is a nonlinear study of an assembly with shrink fit. Originally the study ran, got results, made my report, saved into PDM. I am very diligent in saving in the .CWR file with the same revision as the assembly that it is associated with so I have no issues pulling it out later if I need to. Point is, I know with absolute certainty that I am pulling out the correct revision of .CWR file to use with the assembly file because the revisions during a Save to vault operation match. I also pull out the assembly with "As built" selected.
Anyway, sometimes I can go back and pull a file and .CWR file out and rerun, usually because I want to run with updated material information or something, and it works fine. In fact that was the case with this particular file on a different revision, with a different study and .CWR file - successfully reran it. Now I'm doing the same thing on a different revision / study / .CWR file and it says it can't create a temporary file. It's also not consistent with the way it handles the Simulation tree. Sometimes it will gray out the components even though it's in the correct configuration and the components are not suppressed in the model tree. If I change configurations, then right click on the top of the study and select Load SW Configuration, then the parts will come back in the Simulation tree, or so it seems. When I click ReRun, it meshes, (didn't think it would need, especially since the tree doesn't say it needs to), but it meshes, then when done with meshing it gives me the Temporary file message, then starts solving. It won't solve though; at some point it will stop and give another temporary file message, and then a few more.
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EDIT - it also crashes SolidWorks after actually attempting to solve the analysis anyway.
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I have had this issue trying to Duplicate studies before as well - that isn't a foolproof process, although convenient when it works. Don't know if there is something relevant there.
This has got to be a more common problem; there is nothing special with our setup or how we are using the software.
Another slightly off topic question: Some people here are not saving the .CWR files into PDM thinking they are just results files and if someone wants to go back and look at results they can just rerun the simulation. Will they be able to rerun the simulation without the .CWR file, or will they have to recreate the study from scratch and then rerun?
Failed to create temp file? Move the file to a different location, same problem? Different computer?
For you last q, the setup is in the file, cwr is just mesh and results. So if it is lost, you can always rerun. Interface should never be greyed out unless you are in the wrong config.
This issue "Database not found" happened to me the other day and I've wondering if anyone has found a cause or solution for it. My study was a simple static with contacts and seem to be fine the day that I created it. I even opened the assemby the same day and review the results etc. But a week later (this last Wednesday) I opened the assembly and went to view the results in the study and I get "Database not found."
Has anyone file an SR on it?
Regards
Mark
lots of potential causes
using ePDM?
any file name changes?
any file location changes?
can you find the CWR?
Hi, any news with this problem of "Database not found"?
I've just experience it few times and it is frustrating. My workflow was to do a simple static analysis with 2 shell element bonded together with a spot weld junction. I use this simple assembly in order to prepare myself and my workflow for a much larger analysis which may requires few days to solve (contact set seems to take so much time to solve!). I cannot afford loose days of computing. I use SW Simulation Pro 2013 x64 with Service Pack 3.0 We do not have access to further Service Pack downloads, but I feel it is unacceptable that because we are limited to SP 3.0 such basic functionnality as reloading results is not reliable or half the time functionnal.
Solidworks Simulation is installed on a fresh new workstation. We do not use any PDM or Vault system. The results files were saved directly on the same directory of the assembly on the hard drive of the computer, so no network or vault related issues involved...
I would greatly appreciate have a follow up with your experiences (and hopefully solutions) on this,
Great forum and people here, thank you,
Marc
whats the workflow
you ran an analysis
and you got database not found?
Hi, thank you for your reply.
I created a part with two distinc shells. One surface of each shell overlap. Junction between the two shells is a spot weld junction, with mesh refinement in the weld region. (see attachement). I re-ran the solver this morning with a less refinement over the weld region, and the results where loaded. I close Solidworks, an reopen the model, work again. I redo the simulation with an increase mesh refinement... it loaded the results again...
But when I open the model this morning before I redo the calculation, I had the same message "Database not found"
So I don't know what to think about this, I just don't want to run a large model and have again this loading problem.
Mi first intent when writing in this thread was to have the most recent update on whatever or not the problem have been solved...
Marc-Antoine
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I redo the simulation with an increase mesh refinement... it loaded the results again...
But when I open the model this morning before I redo the calculation, I had the same message "Database not found""
between these steps did you reboot the computer?
where are you storing the files?
does it happen with an analysis on a block?
Hi,
to anwser your questions:
- I did not reboot the computer
- the storing file are on my local drive "c:\my_fea\"
- no PDM server involve, everything is local
- the same problem did happen on a simple block...
I encountered again the same problem today.. "Database not found" after few hours of computing. I did not stop Solidworks, I simply open another part to work on it while simulation was running in background. Came back after calculation was over, then could not load the results while I did had a message saying the calculation worked and was done...
Any clue???
Marc
"Database not found after a few hours of computing" could you describe the exact workflow that is causing the problem? i'm assuming you're not opening the same file when you open the second session?
We have been intermittently seeing a similar, though not identical issue. The error message we typically see is "Data not available". I found that the checkbox for stresses and strains under "results options" was cleared, so that the stress plots would not display, even though displacement plots would show.
Add me to the list. I've had this happen often. I think it's only been in assemblies. 2014 and now 2015, yea!
Linear Static.
SolidWorks should ensure that error messages are adequately descriptive. "Database not found", OK, what database!!??
what type of study?
what happens if you make brand new plots instead of use your existing ones
if you have an issue, duplicate the study and rerun, may be an issue with the intiial run/results