Ansys Mechanical “unable to attach to geometry file” Error

- January 30, 2018 at 4:36 pm
  
  TrevorHicks
  Subscriber
  
  Hi, I'm new to Ansys, and I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction on how to solve an error i encountered. I downloaded Ansys Student 18.2 using Windows 10, and am attempting to perform a steady state thermal analysis of a rectangle, however when i open Ansys Mechanical the application crashes. I've attached a screen shot of the errors generated. I'm following a tutorial so I'm sure it's software related. Any help is greatly appreciated. I've tried reinstalling the program, and installing the program on a different computer, but no luck.
- January 30, 2018 at 5:04 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  If you just draw the rectangle, but don't click on the Pull tool once, you will have curves, but no surface. The surface counts as a body, the curves do not. Clicking on the Pull tool creates the surface, even though you don't pull it into a 3D solid.
  
  Instead of clicking on the Pull tool, you can click on the 3D icon at the bottom of the screen and the surface will be created.
  
  Curves are not bodies. A closed set of curves needs to be converted to a body by creating a surface before there is anything for the plugin to pull into Mechanical.
- January 30, 2018 at 11:11 pm
  
  TrevorHicks
  Subscriber
  
  That was the problem. Thank You!!!
- June 3, 2019 at 6:56 am
  
  FaizAkbar
  Subscriber
  
  Hello Sir
  
  I've made sure that the geometry is a surface but the problem still persisted, is there any other tips that may be useful for this case? Thank you in advance
- June 3, 2019 at 5:29 pm
  
  tsiriaks
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi FaizAkbar,
  
  Please create a new thread for your own issue.
  
  Also, the original issue on this thread has the key error message being "Failed to import assembly from SpaceClaim. No bodies to transfer" . If you don't have this error message, then your issue is totally different.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Win

Viewing 4 reply threads

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Ansys Innovation Space

SimACE-23

Boost Ansys Fluent Simulations with AWS

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) helps engineers design products in which the flow of fluid components is a significant challenge. These different use cases often require large complex models to solve on a traditional workstation. Click here to join this event to learn how to leverage Ansys Fluids on the cloud, thanks to Ansys Gateway powered by AWS.

Earth Rescue – An Ansys Online Series

The climate crisis is here. But so is the human ingenuity to fight it. Earth Rescue reveals what visionary companies are doing today to engineer radical new ideas in the fight against climate change. Click here to watch the first episode.

Ansys Blog

Subscribe to the Ansys Blog to get great new content about the power of simulation delivered right to your email on a weekly basis. With content from Ansys experts, partners and customers you will learn about product development advances, thought leadership and trends and tips to better use Ansys tools. Sign up here.

Trending discussions