Hi,
I am trying to run to a simulation for a fairly large file, with a basic mesh.
When I try to run it, solidworks goes into not responding mode and the geometry preparation window is running forever(about 2 hours now). How do I proceed?
Computer specs are: Intel Xeon 3.00 GHz processor, 32 GB Ram, 5GB Nvidia Graphics Card.
Your descripton is vague, but I am assming you are a new simulation user?
When I was new, I liked to mesh everything finely to get best result thinking that I have a good machine to crunch those data. Then I waited for hours for the data to come.
Then slowly I learnt about how simulation works, then started to explore mesh controls and curvature meshes and element sizes. I also simplify the models just for simulation.
Those helps to reduce processing time without sacrificing the accuracy.