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October 18, 2024 at 1:17 am
peteroznewman
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Delete the Displacement boundary condition on the two end faces of the slides. That is causing an unrealistic support condition.

Select the two end faces and create a Remote Displacement. Make sure the Behavior is Deformable. Now you can assign an X displacement to the control node between the two end faces, leaving the other five degrees of freedom set to Free. This will move the rails along the slide without any extra constraints except for the X displacement of a single node.