Motion view file opening

Tejas
Tejas Altair Community Member
edited April 22 in Community Q&A

Hello I am Tejas,

I am New To Altair Motion view. I am doing Simulation of my M.Tech Thesis Topic Of MCCB Mechanism. When I open My saved file of simulation I only see Joints. The body or parts are not shown .pls if u know what to do then pls Reply.Attaching screenshot for reference.

Thnak You in advance

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  • GTT Adam
    GTT Adam
    Altair Employee
    edited April 22 Answer ✓

    Hi Tejas,

    It looks like your message window is reporting 15 error messages. If you look into those messages, I would assume they are pointing to CAD that it can no longer find. Perhaps a file path has changed recently or files have been moved. You can look at only the error messages by deselecting the warnings and info tabs (just click those tabs to turn off/on) and confirm if the directory issues are the cause.

     

    Hope this helps!

    Adam Reid

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  • GTT Adam
    GTT Adam
    Altair Employee
    edited April 22 Answer ✓

    Hi Tejas,

    It looks like your message window is reporting 15 error messages. If you look into those messages, I would assume they are pointing to CAD that it can no longer find. Perhaps a file path has changed recently or files have been moved. You can look at only the error messages by deselecting the warnings and info tabs (just click those tabs to turn off/on) and confirm if the directory issues are the cause.

     

    Hope this helps!

    Adam Reid

  • Christopher_Fadanelli
    Christopher_Fadanelli
    Altair Employee
    edited April 22

    Hi Tejas,

     

    Thank you for reaching out.

     

    Was the model originally created on a different computer/save location?

    All external entities (Cad/csv/Flexbodies/etc) are saved in the .mdl by their path. This helps reduce the size of the file when saved. So when you open the model on a different computer, you will receive path not found errors.

     

    If you open the model on the original computer/save location. Go to File -> Export -> Model -> Archive Model. This will save the model in a subfolder with all external entities included. Zip and share that folder when you change machines.

     

    You can also find a video on this topic in our free eLearning:  https://learn.altair.com/course/view.php?id=496

     

    Best,

     

    Christopher Fadanelli

     

  • Tejas
    Tejas Altair Community Member
    edited April 22

    Hi Tejas,

    It looks like your message window is reporting 15 error messages. If you look into those messages, I would assume they are pointing to CAD that it can no longer find. Perhaps a file path has changed recently or files have been moved. You can look at only the error messages by deselecting the warnings and info tabs (just click those tabs to turn off/on) and confirm if the directory issues are the cause.

     

    Hope this helps!

    Adam Reid

    Thank You so much Adam Reid for your valuable response.

    Actually I found out that some files has been remove from desktop and kept in Recycle bin. I just restore all files and open the model again and now I can see all bodies and joints with my old saved simulations.

  • Tejas
    Tejas Altair Community Member
    edited April 22

    Hi Tejas,

     

    Thank you for reaching out.

     

    Was the model originally created on a different computer/save location?

    All external entities (Cad/csv/Flexbodies/etc) are saved in the .mdl by their path. This helps reduce the size of the file when saved. So when you open the model on a different computer, you will receive path not found errors.

     

    If you open the model on the original computer/save location. Go to File -> Export -> Model -> Archive Model. This will save the model in a subfolder with all external entities included. Zip and share that folder when you change machines.

     

    You can also find a video on this topic in our free eLearning:  https://learn.altair.com/course/view.php?id=496

     

    Best,

     

    Christopher Fadanelli

     

    Thank You so much Christopher Fadanelli for your valuable response,

    The model was created on same System and i tried exporting model but it did not work.I found out that some file has been remove from desktop and kept in Recycle bin. I just restore all files and open the model again and now I can see all bodies and joints with my old saved simulations.

    Thank You Again.