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[stephan wagenheim]

Hi everybody

I am a French student. Sorry for my English which is not so good.
I have a problem opening the software after downloading.
I downloaded the Ansys Fluent 5.1.66x24 student version.
I don't find the software installed in my office abd nowhere in my pc.
Somedy can maybe help me please?
Thanks a lot

Stephan

[Rob]

No worries, I speak little to no French. And my French team leader can barely understand my (English) accent. 

Assuming you extracted the downloaded zip. Run setup.exe as Admin, and install to C: whatever Ansys asks for. Provided you don't have any non-ASCII characters (e-ecute etc) it ought to work. 

[stephan wagenheim]

Hi
Thank you for your reply.I am sur that your french is excellent :-)
And sorry for my silence I was on a trip.
I installed the software, I can open it, but cannot enter the workbench... When I try to open the workbench
I receive an error message. I send you attached. Also, when I open the software, 
I don't have access to all the tabs...
Thanks...
Stephan
ps: Impossible to join my attached files... the tab doesn't work.Not much works😰

[stephan wagenheim]

[stephan wagenheim]

I succed to send files!...

 

[stephan wagenheim]

[Rob]

Does your username include a symbol above the e in Stephan? A lot of the Ansys tools don't understand non standard (English) characters and the Fluent message is St?phan which isn't a good sign. 

[stephan wagenheim]

Thank you.

What can I do?

[Rob]

Change your username? 

[stephan wagenheim]

ok, i will try.

[stephan wagenheim]

Ok, I advance... i uninstalled all the softaware and installed again.

I dind't have the error message...

I would like to import a STL file bur the software does not recognize the file STL.

Below is my screen with ansys fluent.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Stephan

 

[stephan wagenheim]

[Rob]

The watertight workflow may not work on stl as it's a faceted format. Try fault tolerant. 

[stephan wagenheim]

Hi.

Thank 's again for your help, but I dont know how can i do "A fault tolerent" for STL files? I tried with somes tutorials in youtube but it doesn't work. Do you have maybe an advice for me please?

Thank you.

Stephan

[stephan wagenheim]

Hi.

Thank 's again for your help, but I dont know how can i do "A fault tolerent" for STL files? I tried with somes tutorials in youtube but it doesn't work. Do you have maybe an advice for me please?

I have an another, i don't ahve acces in the workbench. Can you how Can I change the username?

Thank you.

Stephan

[Rob]

STL is a faceted geometry format and can be of poor quality. The two workflows are good for most geometry cases, but there's also the tree (no workflow) if it's really poor.  What is the geometry of? SpaceClaim can patch the surfaces to give a "normal" CAD file. 

Workbench should just "work". What errors are you seeing?

[stephan wagenheim]

Hi and thanks.

This is the message that i receveid when i try to launch Workbench.

[stephan wagenheim]

I didn't succeed to change STL to CAD file in SpaceClaim...

How can i Do it please?

Thank you

[Rob]

The launcher error has been answered on here before (not by me) so should show up with a search.  

Re converting stl (faceted) to traditional CAD, have a look in the Faceted tab in SpaceClaim. There's a "skin" tool, and from memory the documentation will explain how to use that. Otherwise you will need Fault Tolerant workflow. 

[stephan wagenheim]

Thank you for your reply.
Yes i received an answer for the launcher error, i tried to change my username but i don't found it, where or how?...

Do you have maybe an idea? How can i change the username please?

Ok for the CAD file with SpaceClain, I'll try.

Thank you very much...

[Rob]

The Username is done via Windows, I can't help with that as I'm a cause of computer problems, not a fixer of! 

[stephan wagenheim]

Hi and thanks. I Know that you are not a fixer. I just want to understand what happens and why the softwrae doesn't work. Thank you.

[Rob]

OK, no worries. The software is designed to work with UNIX, some parts more than others, and doesn't understand most of the "odd" characters. That's not something I tend to think about as I used to use UNIX and DOS, so never add anything other than - or _ into any filename or path: I don't even use spaces which has been OK for about 5-10 years. 

[stephan wagenheim]

Ok. I changed my user name with as username "Stephan" and it's the same problem. Do you think that i need to download Unix and retry? thank's

[Rob]

Not if you're using Windows 10/11!  Rename the Ansys %appdata% too, that can corrupt and cause problems.