how to avoid a dialogue box.

[srosset]

Hello,

I am performing nonlinear analysis, and sometimes, if elements get very distorted, a dialogue box appears saying something like : Some elements have become highly distorted(...)
The simulation stops until the user press on OK. This is rather anoying if a batch of simulation is run, for without user supervision, ansys stops.

My question is : Is there a way to suppress this dialogue box?

Thanks.

 

[cloche]

Hi,
warnings of this kind should not popup when the solution is called from within a macro (/solu solve) or in batch mode.
But due to the type of warning you get, you should be sure you can stand the calculation error due to the highly distorted mesh: generally operating with distorsion higher than "standard" limits is not good. If you haven't already done, perhaps you should try Adaptive Meshing.

 

[Drej]

Use:

/uis,msgpop,3

which will only display the error messages.

You may also consider using something like:

/nerr,,,-1

/nerr is for allowing a certain number warnings before aborting a solution. The above /nerr is undocumented (use with caution) and tells ANSYS not to terminate a batch job on an error.


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[srosset]

Thank you for your replies.

I indeed try to avoid high distortion of the mesh. If this happens I refine it and start again. But I need to run a couple simulations in a batch and then come back to the problematic ones. Your replies will help me to do so. Thanks a lot.