Inventor Crashes while saving dynamic simulation results

[Anonymous]

Hi,

perhaps my fault but could not find any related post.

When I run a dynamic simulation and, at the end, I try to save the file, Inventor crashes.

This happens with whatever simulation any time the file size exceeds 1.something  GB - say for long complex simulations.

I am running Inventor 2014 SP1 Update 3 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with plenty of RAM (128 GB) and resource.

Can't post the inventor files due to confidentiality issues and can't even attach a video (mp4) created from such a simulation because not allowed here.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for any help

Adriano

[blair]

You haven't established any maximum folder sizes that you are exceeding?

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

No, there is no size limit for the containing folder.

We also use ANSYS and that really creates BIG files...

Plus, I have tried "Save as" to different locations without success.

[blair]

Very Odd!, thought it might be easy with a folder size restriction as you are using Win-Server. I take it you are current on all SP's and Hot-Fixes for Inventor? There is not another instance of Inventor running in the background? Just grasping as straws here on this.

[Anonymous]

Again, thanks for your support.

It's odd indeed!

However, you made very good points.

In fact I was running multiple Inventor sessions with different simulations (my FEA machine has plenty of resources...).

Therefore I did a trial on another spare machine we have in the office, running only one Inventor session (and nothing else) on the same large simulation.

The outcome  did not change at all: Inventor crashed when, at the end, I tried to save the file.

BTW, the testing machine runs on Win 7 Pro

Also, I was working on the local drive so network problems should be ruled out...