Can’t transfer thermal load results from Fluent to Mechanical

- September 23, 2018 at 12:50 am
  
  mdvanden
  Subscriber
  
  Hi all,
  
  I'm trying to perform static structural on a solid part that has a specific thermal regime solution it got from Fluent. When trying to import body temperature load into mechanical I get a failed answer (red lightning) and a message saying :
  
  --Error-- Unexpected end of file
  
  --Error-- Required Variable 'Load Number on LOAD_NAME' does not exist
  
  Seems to me like there is just an answer file missing or corrupt in the transfer. But I do get all my thermal results ok if I open Fluent...
  
  Not sure what to do, if there is a bug somewhere?
  
  Thanks, I'd appreciate any insight
- September 23, 2018 at 10:26 am
  
  raul.raghav
  Subscriber
  
  Could you share the workbench archive (.wbpz) file so we could take a look at it?
- September 24, 2018 at 3:23 pm
  
  mdvanden
  Subscriber
  
  Hi Rahul,
  
  Sure, it's a pretty big file though (~17GB), is there a way I could send/transfer it?
  
  Also, I tried again now when I try to import the thermal load Mechanical just crashes. Any hints of what might be going on?
  
  Thanks!
- September 26, 2018 at 6:58 am
  
  raul.raghav
  Subscriber
  
  Can you try exporting the Temperature data from CFD-Post and using the External Data module to import the data into Mechanical? Once you export the Temperature data from CFD-Post, check the following video on how to map the data:
  
  Mapping by External Data system
- October 2, 2018 at 3:15 pm
  
  mdvanden
  Subscriber
  
  So I realized that the bug was with Mechanical. I deleted the entire mechanical model and restarted, importing CFD results. This worked fine.
  
  Thanks for the help!

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