Additional Hard Drive

[MarkMazour]

On one of our Engineering machines we are quickly running out of space while runngin a large model. The plan to resolve this is to add an addtional 1TB hard drive. My question is once the new drive is installed how we get Autodesk Simulation to use that new drive when processing models?

[S.LI · Accepted solution]

1.) you can uninstall the existing autodesk simulation, and reinstall it in your new disk

2.) Move your simulation model to the new disk. The result and temporary files will be there by default

[MarkMazour]

That did not work the c drive is still filling up when the model is being run. What does the program use when it is running a simulation? Is it using temp files if so where is it placing those files? Or is it using system pagefile?

Our C drive is 120 GB with 45GB freespace before running the model and the new F dirve is 1TB with 980GB freespace. We have the model/file on the F drive and when the simulation is run the space consumed on the F drive remains, for the most part, unchanged. But the C drive quickly fills up.

[S.LI]

Environment variable %TEMP% is sometimes used for equation solvers to store temperature files. Usually it's c:\windows\temp.

Maybe you can reset it to F drive.

[sunj.autodesk]

You may also try to explicitly select the "iterative (AMG)" solver instead of the "Automatic" solver if your model is very large. AMG solver is generally a better choice for very large models.

[SaMurgie]

Hi

Your models will run where you tell the software to (except as noted previously, $TEMP is used for some files).  Hence the easiest way to do this is to just save (or if needed copy) you models to your new drive and then open/run them from there.

Cheers,

Sam