More computing power during set up.

[TomHeinzen3416]

My CPU is only operating at 3% during the meshing and pre-solve process.  Sometimes this takes a long time (up to 2 hrs) on large models.  Is there some way you can change the system so the computer uses all of its processing power during this time period. 

[LKania]

Tom,

  You might try setting the flag 'mesh_multicore' which will thread the volume meshing process across as many cores as you care to enable. The flag manager defines its usage.

[eyaln]

I was checking my setup and found

Value = A

How many CPU's are involved in the mash?

[LKania]

Both surface and volume meshing operations are, by default, serial processes and will run on a single core. By way of the flag I described above, you can enable threading of the volume meshing operation and can devote as many cores to this process as you like.