"error #1004 orphaned continuation data",what does it means?

Chark Chou
Chark Chou New Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Preserving existing .out file as:
C:/Users/wuhu/Desktop/boardfreesize_002.out
Preserving existing .stat file as:
C:/Users/wuhu/Desktop/boardfreesize_002.stat
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 *** ERROR # 1004 *** in the input data:
 Orphaned continuation data (previous card had a trailing comma).

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 A fatal error has been detected during input processing:


  *** See next message about line 11 from file:
      C:/Users/wuhu/Desktop/boardfreesize.fem
   (this is continuation line 1 of OUTPUT data
   'CSTRAIN(ALL,NDIV=1) = YES'

  *** ERROR # 1004 *** in the input data:
  Orphaned continuation data (previous card had a trailing comma).


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 ==== End of solver screen output ==== 


 ==== Solver FAILED ==== 


 ==== OptiStruct Job completed ==== 


 

Answers

  • Adriano A. Koga
    Adriano A. Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited August 2020

    Can you open your model in a good text editor and check at the beginning of your solver deck, what comes after the CSTRAIN line?

    It seems that there are something wrong there.