The most embarrassing mistake I made doing FEA is...

[RoopinderTara]

What is the dumbest mistake you've seen in FEA? I written up a few the one's I've made here:

http://www.engineering.com/DesignSo...-Most-Embarrassing-Mistakes-You-Can-Make.aspx

That was from my experience. I would love to do a follow-up article based on your experience. If you would like your name withheld or want to keep your dumb mistake within this forum, please let me know.

best,
Roopinder Tara
Director of Content
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Roopinder Tara
Director of Content
ENGINEERING.com

 

[corus]

A big mistake was to submit a large job (that took two days to run) last thing on a Friday night hoping to see the results all ready on the following Monday morning, only to find a message on the screen on the Monday morning saying 'old job files exist, do you wish to delete these Y/N?'. Moral of the story - make haste, less speed.

 

[gravityandinertia]

I've done similar corus. I've also asked software companies to add the ability to have a setting that let's you make a default choice on those dialogs after a certain amount of time passes as an enhancement request.