Errors with *ORIENTATION

I suspect I am missing something simple, but I would much appreciate your advice.

I am calculating buckling in a sandwich structure. The shape is a so-called stellated icosahedron. I calculate for different values of a certain integer parameter n related to the number of edges. I am having no problems with n=1 and n=2, but for n=3 I start getting errors, such as

*ERROR reading *ORIENTATION: distribution
-4.265755714032843E-5
has not been defined

The relevant lines in the input:

*MATERIAL,NAME=C39
*ELASTIC,TYPE=ENGINEERING CONSTANTS
6.6879e8,66.879,66.879,1.0e-5,1.0e-5,1.0e-5,1.379e8,1.379e8
13.79,273.15
*ORIENTATION,NAME=OR39
-4.265755714034968e-5,0.041314893132270915,0.06350969495567342,-0.26043909983097135,-0.026301865130987256,0.01693519472946925
*ELSET,ELSET=ELC39k4,GENERATE
664702,665124
*SOLID SECTION,ELSET=ELC39k4,MATERIAL=C39,ORIENTATION=OR39

Why is the number read as a name of a distribution?

Another (apparently, induced) error:

*ERROR reading *SOLID SECTION. Card image:
*SOLIDSECTION,ELSET=ELC39K4,MATERIAL=C39,ORIENTATION=OR39

*ERROR reading *SOLID SECTION: nonexistent orientation

The relevant lines of input are the same.

The ccx input file is temporarily at akhmeteli.org/newbuildorder.zip , but the zipped file is very large (about 100 MB).

Another thing I don’t understand. When I click on the ccx input file, I get numerous messages:

ERROR in seta: A negative entity-index:-1 was used in set +dlo

I use a Linux ccx_2.19_MT executable from feacluster.com.

Thank you

CalculiX (just as ABAQUS) reads reals with the f20.0 Fortran format.

-4.265755714034968e-5 has more than 20 chars.

Just remove the last decimal

-4.26575571403496e-5

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This is only mentioned for the UEL subroutine. Abaqus can read longer numbers in the input deck:

input

CalculiX would read this as approximately 2.93.

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It seems this has worked! Thank you very much indeed! Would be difficult for me to guess.