*NODE PRINT affects on convergence

I have some calculations where entering *NODE PRINT causes the analysis not to converge, but without *NODE PRINT the analysis goes to the end, has anyone else had this happen?

Sounds ominous. I guess you’re not using the FREQUENCY or TIME POINTS parameters which alter the increment times and can do that?

TIME POINTS could indeed do that but FREQUENCY ? This should just write the results every x existing increments without affecting them.

@rafal.brzegowy Did you try multiple times ? Maybe it just happens once in a few runs. Such a behavior is sometimes observed in CalculiX and changing a solver may help.

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