I'm currently using constructing a medium-sized (~50,000 elements) model in HyperMesh. The program ran without issue until a few months into the project. Once the Surface function began to be used to project nodes, the issue arose. When creating a surface (sometimes consisting of as few as 5 shell elements) from a set of fairly average 2D elements, the program would stop responding and I would be prompted with a Windows warning telling me the program is closing and that it cannot be recovered. The crashing of HM would progressively get worse; the program would then begin crashing when using the Project function (when highlighting the surfaces, most often), and when using the Nodes function (i.e. creating nodes on a surface). The crashing is linked to surfaces in all cases. I do not believe it is a RAM issue, as the model worked well even when it consisted of 300,000 elements and the computer runs ANSYS without issue.
Are surfaces (during creation or selection) a common cause of HM not responding and is there any way to mitigate these crashes?
The program does not close to Desktop; it freezes and a Windows warning appears.
The attached picture shows the program not responding while attempting to create nodes on a surface.
Thank you
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