Crash of ASTER

Hello

I am trying to use the live CD, it seems interesting but I cannot make a calcculation with anithing else than the piston.

Each time I take STEP file or a simple cube, Aster crash.

The last message state that the number of the calculated MAILLE is bigger than the total number of MAILLE.


Does anyone knows what I can do ?????

Thank you

-- CODE_ASTER -- VERSION DE DEVELOPPEMENT FIGEE 8.01 --

COPYRIGHT EDF-R&D 1991 - 2005

EXECUTION DU : LU-12-DECE-2005 06:29:05

PLATE-FORME : LOCALHOST

NB MAX PROC : 1

SYSTEME : LINUX

CPU : I686


LE NUMERO DE LA MAILLE DE TYPE TRIA3 EST
SUPERIEUR AU NOMBRE TOTAL DE MAILLES :
NUMERO DE LA MAILLE : 2628
NOMBRE DE MAILLES : 1106

Hi Benoit,

the error you get in Aster is just due to a simple problem with Salome:
Salome is always incrementing the node & element numbers even if the previous ones have been deleted. This is a problem for Aster because it will not accept node or element numbers that are greater than the total number of nodes / elements in the mesh.

But there is a very simple solution for that (sorry I forgot to mention that in the tutorial ):
When your mesh is OK in Salome, you might select menu Modification->Renumbering->Nodes & Modification->Renumbering->Elements.

(I am not 100% sure of the name of the menu item, but it should be more or less that)

Then you can export your mesh in MED 2.2 file and that's it!

Wonderful !!!!!!!

That works !!!!

YOu cannot imagine how I am happy.

I would like to say a great THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.

PS : do you have any tutorial for shell calculation ? I have tryed it, it does not seems to be easy. (direction of vectors ...)