Reply To: A solver pivot error and warning

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Gary’s suggestion to use a thermal analysis was only as a diagnostic. We do a similar thing to test rigid body motion in a static structural analysis by running a modal analysis. There are no contacts in your model. Do not rely on an image to assume mesh is connected since it often uses the same mesh size on both sides of touching bodies with default sizing and may appear as connected. You will need to connect these bodies using shared topology in SpaceClaim or DesignModeler or use contacts in Mechanical.