Hello everyone. I think this could be a bug or, at least, some unexpected behavior.
I did an analysis and the status icons show because it is completed without errors.
After this, I created another analysis to verify some incrementation settings. The new analysis now shows the icon❌ because it was not run yet, as expected. However, the first analysis (previously with the green checkmark) also turns into a red error. This is an unexpected behavior in my opinion.
This is easily a cosmetic preference with maybe little relevance. However, when the previously run analysis turns to , one cannot open the results anymore. They are in the working directory stored in the .frd file, however, PrePoMax no longer acknowledges its existence. The error is that “The analysis did not complete”, but it is completed.
If the user wants to have several studies regarding different meshes, settings, materials, and so on, it should be allowed to store as many analyses as he/she wants and open them whenever needed.
Suggested modification: stands for a completed analysis stands for non-completed analysis (maybe could be changed to something else to avoid reference to error) stands for errors in running and not-completed analysis
No need to hurry Matej, I know you’re always very busy. Thanks for the amazing software and dedication to making it better and better.
I created this thread because I was not sure if the discussion from the other thread covered specifically the creation of another analysis causing trouble to the first one created.
For me, the biggest issue related to this is what I said in the previous thread:
I wonder if this behavior could be fixed. For the first part (accessing the results when the analysis is running), maybe PrePoMax could create a temporary copy of the .frd (and probably also .dat) file so that the original results files are not affected if that’s the culprit. For the second one (accessing the results of killed analyses), doesn’t it just come down to opening an existing .frd file ? Even if a separate (workaround) command would have to be used for that, assuming that the current one can’t do it for some reason. Perhaps the issues are deeper than I think, just want to know if that’s the case.
@FEAnalyst, those are exactly my ideas on how to solve the problem. But… This is not the only problem to solve. I will try to do it as soon as possible
Sure, there’s no hurry since this behavior is nothing new and there are workarounds (one can just copy/manually open the .frd file himself) but it would be nice to change this in the future.
because it is completed without errors.
, one cannot open the results anymore. They are in the working directory stored in the .frd file, however, PrePoMax no longer acknowledges its existence. The error is that “The analysis did not complete”, but it is completed.
stands for errors in running and not-completed analysis