A Time Problem. Pause Analysis

[edguy2112]

Hi!

Well, my question is:

I can pause an Analysis?.

In other words, I wanna pause the analysis today, turn off the computer; and tomorrow, turn on the computer, open the archive, and continue with the analysis. it's possible? without losing data?..... What is the way?

Thanks!

Mata

[raalteh]

Good question, there is no 'pause' button in Moldflow, but I believe that for instance on my laptop, when I close it and it goes into hybernation and it starts in the morning, it continues the analysis.

Moldflow does have the concept of a restart file, where the software can restart from a previous time step. This is something that works in midplane/DD flow. If you make for instance a change to the packing profile, it doesn't restart the analysis. A 'Pause' analysis button would have to use this concept.

The restart file used to be something in 3D flow as well but it was removed becaus it caused a lot of stability problems, produced extremely large files (unavoidable).

Some variations of this request was made at two German user meetings; stop an analysis, make a change and continue without starting from the beginning. The context of this I believe was setup of valve gate timers.