Elmer crash when clicking on boundaries

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A-R-K
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Re: Elmer crash when clicking on boundaries

Post by A-R-K »

I have partially identified the problem with Elmer GUI crashing when double clicking on a surface. Background info:

Dell Precision laptop, Win10
Intel Core i7 with integrated graphics circa 2015
NVidia Quadro M1000M 3D graphics chip

elmerfem-nightly_Windows-AMD64.exe with date of 2018-12-19
Also was just having the same crash on a version I installed in 2016 (which worked fine then).

If i ran either version of Elmer GUI on the integrated Intel graphics, it would crash (closed out) every time I double clicked on a surface. The surface would never turn red.

SOLUTION: Run Elmer GUI on the NVidia processor. Right click on the short cut -> Run with graphics processor -> High performance Nvidia processor.

It seems likely Elmer GUI doesn't work well with the Intel graphics drivers recently shipped by Intel/Dell. Hope this helps. Devs, if there is any further info or testing you need, please let me know.
akuthi
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Re: Elmer crash when clicking on boundaries

Post by akuthi »

elmerguifix.pdf
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There is a simple workaround:
1) Import your mesh or open your project.
2) Before you do anything, as soon as the surface mesh is displayed in ElmerGUI, deselect "Sharp edges" in the menu "View"
3) Go ahead do what you want, the thing now works, and you can select any boundary and body without problem.

This you must repeat anytime you reopen your project, as the ElmerGUI resets the "Sharp edges" to on automatically.

Hope this helps.

Andy Kuthi
P.S: It must be very simple to fix this, but I am not a programmer...
julien givernaud
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Re: Elmer crash when clicking on boundaries

Post by julien givernaud »

Hello,

With the Elmer9.0, the trick doesn't work. By defaut "Sharp edges" is not selected and the crashes are present.

Best regards
Mifflin
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Re: Elmer crash when clicking on boundaries

Post by Mifflin »

I am from Taiwan. I installed Elmer 9.9.0 on a computer with Windows 10 2016 LTSB in Traditional Chinese, experienced the double-click and crash issue. I thought it might be my Windows in Traditonal Chinese, so I tried to install an Ubuntu 20.04.5 on the computer and it didn't work.

Then, I suspected it's video card issue. The computer didn't come with a video card. It used on-board video (Intel HD...). I installed a Nvidia GT 710 (low cost) video card. It works! Ubuntu can start, so does the double-click and crash issue on Windows 10 have gone.
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