Article - CS222462

"FEA Installation problem, cannot find "Scratch directory for NASTRAN not specified" in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling

Modified: 10-Nov-2015   


Applies To

  • Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 16.00 to 19.00

Description

  • Unable to define job with error:  Installation problem, cannot find "Scratch directory for NASTRAN not specified". Attention - The created error labels only point to the part in which an error occured. They do not show the geometric position of the problem.
  • Customer has FEA Module (Finite Element Analysis) enabled in CoCreate Modeling and has set up an analysis. When they try to run or analyze their study they get an output window stating that: Installation problem, cannot find "Scratch directory for NASTRAN not specified". The analysis will not continue to run. 
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