This is a good question. Because what you’re doing is pretty advanced, I suggest you ask for help at our official support forum:
https://simcompanion.hexagon.com/
Yeah, the issue is that your simple support has 3 nodes. If you had this setup in real life, you'd get compression on the left end of that support but the right end would bend up and not be in contact. Look at what kind of contact you're modeling—it seems that separation is not occurring.
Nastran-95 looks like Fortran 77 to me. The codebase for Nastran actually goes back to the 60's, predating quite a lot of changes to Fortran. Backward compatibility is very prized so Nastran is probably representing numbers in its own way. Nastran number formats are quirky, e.g., 7 could be...
What you're describing is unusual. 2020 is pretty old. Are you able to upgrade? We have free student editions here: https://studentedition.mscsoftware.com/ including for Adams View. If you needed Adams Car and were on a competition team, you could get a free license for that through another...
It looks like you're set to have the part deactivated. You can reactivate it by checking the checkboxes in the dialog shown in the screenshot. Does that answer your question?
Are you working on a particular tutorial?
Also, we have a forum here: https://gateway.mscsoftware.com/Login.aspx?refer=https://gateway.mscsoftware.com/Users/SfdcSSO.aspx?startUrl=%2Fcustomers%2Fs%2F&type=com If you report your issue there, it is more likely to get in front of people who could confirm if this is a bug.
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Which version of Adams are you using? Is it the latest student edition or is it a commercial release like 2023.4? What are your language settings?
Please give me more information on how to reproduce your problem; if you can...
To me, this looks like a typo in the manual—everything makes sense if you change "first" to "second". If you search the manual for invariant, it seems that they are using the usual definitions (with the first invariant being the trace), e.g...