Delay on the Mechanical GUI when using a few thousands of objects

av

Dear All, dear Developer,

I'm facing with a huge delay in my model when using about 6000 joint objects (fixed connections between pipes and tubesheets in a heat exchanger). If I click on a unique joint or I want to add an extra one, I have to wait about 2s for the generation/creation of the object on a high-end workstation.
My solution was to create the fixed joints not with Mechanical GUI but via an APDL-Script.

Ist there a way / setting to make the GUI faster? Is it planned by the developer to make the GUI faster?

(If I'm not wrong, the GUI not even uses the with Transaction() wrapper which can be used to make the generation process faster when creating objects by a script. Sometimes I can follow with the <?WORD FLAGGED?> eye how some sub-objects like coordinate systems are created and how objects are grouped together in a folder.)

Thank you for your help,
AV

Rohith Patchigolla

Hello @av

Which version are you using?

Try activating the beta options and set the "Validate" to "Partial" as shown in the below picture.

For any follow up questions, please also post in Ansys Learning Forum.

Ansys Learning Forum

Cheers,

Rohith