@kamrani Just look at the keyword deck itself. If it is there, then don't worry about what the GUI (LS-PrePost) says or doesn't say.

@mogud Have you tried the advice that was previously suggested? If yes, what are the results?

Weird! Are you running out of memory by any chance?

If you are in the Windows world, then also make sure there are no spaces in the new shorter path.

I don't quite understand what you need help with. The message is self-explanatory. Check that line and may be a few more lines in the neighborhood and...

Why does the solver quit after those few hours when you use option A and B? I am seeing: "I played with this knob and it crashed. I played with that...

@ssdng Is the physics statically indeterminate? Does the solver get past a few time steps before quitting or does it quit without ever converging the ...

The response is none of my business so consider this as food for thought: Making even an omelette in the kitchen can be complicated if I have never wa...

@negativevolume I am assuming something is happening ("..there is no separation of the two parts after the initial contact") prior to contact and as t...

This issue was resolved in another forum (eng-tips).

If the contact isn't active initially, then you will need to prescribe Birth Time on the Tied Contact.

I don't remember this off the top of my head but there is an option somewhere to edit resampling.

@mbuller32 Firstly, an unsolicited comment: In my limited experience, product designers who are curious about FEA use SolidWorks for analysis. I hav...

@mass Check this out. You may have to flip the sign of a particular flag in a card (i.e., sign of an entire column in the input deck; DOF=4 to DOF=-...

Which keyword contains the fiber field in the dyna input deck? Is it *element_solid_ortho?