FreeCAD freezes

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ReneSci
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FreeCAD freezes

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Have any of you experienced that, when starting a simulation ( Press Solver - "RUN" ) then the "status" text box says "0.0 Solver Started" and the "Report View" starts to report the progress until about the 2'nd iteration then FreeCAD freezes. However OpenFOAM continues to work and do its calculations in the background. The progress and results can continuously be viewed by opening "pv.foam"

I have made 3 modifications in the ConrtolDict - file:

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deltaT          0.001;

writeInterval   0.01;

adjustTimeStep  no;



Is seems like my current simulations, I have to force a deltaT in order to make the simulation run. Otherwise openFOAM starts to make the time steps very small - in the order 10^-5 - and never get finished The results seems plausible...
Most of this series of simulations runs 100% normal without a freezing freeCAD - it only one of my cases the makes freeCAD freeze

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OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.1.29410 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-20
Hash: f5d13554ecc7a456fb6e970568ae5c74ba727563
Python 3.8.10, Qt 5.15.2, Coin 4.0.1, Vtk 8.2.0, OCC 7.6.3
Locale: Danish/Denmark (da_DK)
Installed mods: 
  * A2plus 0.4.58
  * ArchTextures
  * Assembly4 0.12.3
  * CfdOF 1.17.9
  * Defeaturing
  * Dracula 0.0.2
  * ExtremeProDark 1.0.4
  * IconThemes
  * lattice2 1.0.0
  * Manipulator 1.4.9
  * MeshRemodel 1.8919.0
  * parts_library
  * Plot 2022.4.17
  * sheetmetal 0.2.56
  * workfeature
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