AcuOut installation

Peter Parrish_22382
Peter Parrish_22382 Altair Community Member
edited June 13 in Community Q&A

Is there a way to install AcuOut as a standalone package? I need to be able to easily convert ACUSIM results to Ensight or other data formats.

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  • acupro
    acupro
    Altair Employee
    edited June 13 Answer ✓

    There is no standalone executable - only the complete CFD Solvers package.  It should already be there as part of the installation on the machine where you run AcuSolve.  Are you not seeing it?

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  • acupro
    acupro
    Altair Employee
    edited June 13 Answer ✓

    There is no standalone executable - only the complete CFD Solvers package.  It should already be there as part of the installation on the machine where you run AcuSolve.  Are you not seeing it?

  • Peter Parrish_22382
    Peter Parrish_22382 Altair Community Member
    edited June 13

    AcuOut doesnt always work. The only method I know of to access it is to open simlab and look it up in the search bar. Sometimes its present but most of the time it's not. I will have to use acuTrans, but I don't understand the syntax very well at this time. 

  • acupro
    acupro
    Altair Employee
    edited June 13
    Peter Parrish_22382 said:

    AcuOut doesnt always work. The only method I know of to access it is to open simlab and look it up in the search bar. Sometimes its present but most of the time it's not. I will have to use acuTrans, but I don't understand the syntax very well at this time. 

    If you've installed SimLab + Additionals (to get access to the solvers), but not HWCFD Solvers, you may have difficulty consistenly getting/executing acuOut.  I would suggest creating a Desktop shorcut to the following file:

    C:\Program Files\Altair\2023.1\SimLab\bin\win64\solvers\Acusolve\acusolve\win64\bin\acusim.bat

    (This is the default path for 2023.1 - other versions would have a similar path you can find.)

    This will create a Command Prompt, with the environment established.  If you issue  acuOut  from that Command Prompt, it should always be able to find and open acuOut.

  • acupro
    acupro
    Altair Employee
    edited June 13
    Peter Parrish_22382 said:

    AcuOut doesnt always work. The only method I know of to access it is to open simlab and look it up in the search bar. Sometimes its present but most of the time it's not. I will have to use acuTrans, but I don't understand the syntax very well at this time. 

    If you have installed the HW CFD Solvers package, you should have access to an existing AcuSolve Command Prompt:

    Windows Start > Altair 2023.1 > AcuSolve Cmd Prompt 2023.1

    Bottom-line you always need to use an AcuSolve-established command prompt.

    In case you're using HyperMesh CFD / HyperWorks CFD, from the Solution ribbon you also have access to the Convert tool - basically another GUI to acuTrans.

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