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

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RoopinderTara

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Jun 21, 2015
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What is the dumbest mistake you've seen in FEA? I written up a few the one's I've made here:

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.

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Roopinder Tara
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Roopinder Tara
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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.

 
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.
 
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