To run the HyperXtrude job using the command prompt on PC/ UNIX machines in the background, ensure that the necessary data files (Jobname.grf and Jobname.hx) are present in the directory. In addition, Jobname.hx must have following command at end of the file. If not, then you will have to add following lines in Jobname.tcl file),

# User Commands

#============

  solve

  exit

#============

Use following command based on machine type,

[installation path]\Altair\hw14.0\hwsolvers\scripts\hx.bat [job name]

$ [installation path]/hw14.0/altair/scripts/hx [job name].hx &

Where $ represents the UNIX prompt for user input. This command will execute the job in background. While the job is running in HyperXtrude, an .out file is created in same working folder. This file contains the solution convergence information at every time step.

 

 

See Also:

Launching and Managing HyperXtrude Jobs