Just to clarify, so your stand-alone Fluent is working fine now ? You can launch, do some work, save and load just fine ?

As for WB-Fluent loading project, are you able to just launch a blank session of Workbench-Fluent without loading a project ?

Right click on the Fluent module in Workbench and select 'Properties' , then post the screenshot of this.

Open CMD Prompt and enter the following command

set

then post the output of this as well.

Thanks for the info.

Your stand-alone Fluent is really working fine. It loads completely.

For the 'Properties' from Workbench, can you right click on the 'Solution' cell in this Fluent module and select 'Properties' , then post its screenshot again ?

Hmm, this looks good too.

When you launch Fluent from Workbench, how far does it go before throwing that error ? Do you see Fluent console with some messages in there ? What is the last message that it shows ?

So, it hangs during loading your project files.

Let's see if you have the same issue with this.

Open a new WB session. 

Insert Fluid Flow (Fluent) system

Import this "Support_Geometry.igs" geometry file from C:Program FilesANSYS Incv192aisolSamplesFEModeler

Right click on 'Mesh' , then 'Update'

Double click on 'Setup'

Does this hang at the same stage in Fluent console window ?

If so, in CMD Prompt, try the following command (make sure all ANSYS apps are closed)

move "%appdata%ansys" "%appdata%ansys.old"

Also, when Fluent Launcher window pop-up, click 'Show More Options' -> 'Environment' -> put the following in the Environment Variables box

LAUNCHER_FLUENT_OPTIONS=-driver msw

If this doesn't help, try changing it to

LAUNCHER_FLUENT_OPTIONS=-driver opengl2

Does any of this help ?

But Fluent stand-alone does work, so this is more of a settings in WB that somehow changes Fluent settings or something else in WB.

Let's try another test.

In WB, insert Fluent component systems, then open this Fluent session. Does this work without issue ?

let's eliminate any potential MPI related issues.

In your Fluent Launcher, set it to be Parallel with 0 cores

Also, i prefer temp project to be local on the machine with full access, say, C:temp ,  for example.

Thanks for the update. Glad the ANSYS Student version works for you.

Just curious, is this still the same machine and what version number is this ANSYS Student ?

I see. Probably there was an issue with Fluent configurations. So, the newly installed ANSYS Student version works.

In any case, glad it works for you. Thanks for the info.