×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

solver time

solver time

solver time

(OP)
I am running a simulation in Solidworks. I have 11 grounded bolt fixtures and 14 bolt connectors. The other components have a mixture of 'bonded' and 'no penetration' contact sets. There are 13 contact sets and another 13 component contact sets. There are four parts in the assembly and additional 13 gussets.

My computer has 8 GB memory and the resources seem to be enough (checked performance in task manager)
My solver has been running for the past hour and 40 min. and for at least the past 20 minutes (mayb longer as this is when I checked before) the solver is at 9.1% The details of the solver show it at 100% of 'Automatic global contact search'. There has no change in the memory usage for a looong time. Though task manager shows fluctuating CPU usage.


Now, my question, Should I cancel this analysis or leave it running? Is it stuck for worse?

RE: solver time

(OP)
I discovered the forumn for solidworks simulations. I am posting there now.
Sorry everybody for posting in the wrong forumn.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources