SOLIDWORKS Simulation - Troubleshooting Errors

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The most common Simulation errors will be seen and our most common trouble-shooting techniques tested. If you commonly run into any of the following popups, or you are just getting started with Static or Nonlinear studies, then this webinar will benefit you. "Mesh Failed", "Model is Unstable", "Do you want to turn on large displacement?" "Solution failure at Step-1." Webinar presented by Shivani Patel of GoEngineer.

[@VLAHECO]

This was a very cool and helpful video. Thank you for sharing

[@MissSandy07]

+VLAHECO Thanks for watching! Please be sure to share with others who will find this useful too.

[@kaen6030]

Good Tutorial. Thank you!

[@goengineer]

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[@jonahtang]

Thank you for the video, will give these troubleshooting a try.
Can you explain what the cause of “solution failure in a step >1”? You mention instability, but can you clarify what you mean by that?

[@goengineer]

Hey Jonahtang, I would recommend reaching out to your reseller to have them troubleshoot that error if you encounter it.

[@SplitPhotography]

Keep having "static solver failed" on very basic simulation of simple part.
Topology study this is.
Have double checked under connections that the part is not unconstrained.
Have also tried with soft springs.
Fixtures i have a few holes. And load area and same holes are preserved.
Have tried with just gravity.
Can't think of anything else now. Have spent a ton of hours and geting nowhere really.
It will generate a mesh fine, but fail when i run the study.
BUT i also had trouble doing a static on same part, and found that wheb doing create mesh-mesh quality, then selecting draft instead of high, then it woul run. At high, i will have the error.
So kinda thinking it actually be harware related? Am i way of?

[@srijandixit1224]

Hyyy nice video but i am getting an error in doing a force simulation in a single piece the error was "The part was analyzed in earlier version. All result and plots are available. Please remesh to run this analysis" . Could you help me please .!

[@goengineer]

SOLIDWORKS has this to say for that error message:
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This issue is known to occur in system environments where the model files are located on a network drive along with the result folder for the Simulation study. Another possibility is that the length of the path to the SOLIDWORKS® Simulation results folder is very long or perhaps contains non-English characters.
Some customers have also reported that using a Results folder location which is managed by cloud storage solutions or other third party software which performs file synchronization services (like file backup or file mirroring) can also cause this message.
Please try the following steps:
1. Move model files to a new folder on your local drive, for instance 'C:\Models'.
IMPORTANT: If any third party software is configured to synchronize or backup everything on your C drive, consider adding an exclusion for the new folder you created.
2. Launch SOLIDWORKS and make sure only Simulation add-in is enabled (nothing else).
3. Change the result folder in study properties to a subfolder within the folder where model files are on local hard drive, for instance 'C:\Models\Results' - click NO if asked whether you want to copy result files.
4. Delete any existing .CWR files in the new result folder (there shouldn't be any unless you clicked YES to a question about copying result files during step 3).
5. Try meshing and running.
If these steps do not help, try the following:
6. Exit SOLIDWORKS and rename HKCU\Software\SRAC and HKCU\Software\SolidWorks.
7. Perform System Maintenance using the Rx tool. Make sure the ‘Clean the Windows temp directory’ option is enabled.
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If you have trouble with any of these steps, or this does not fix your problem, please reach out to your local SOLIDWORKS VAR.