Ok, there's plenty of questions here to go around. Everyonefeel free to reach in a grab one for yourself. ;-P I'm running astudy with a sliding wedge not to dissimilar to a side action camon a die. This wedge has a jack screw with a shoulder. I am runninga study to see what the effects are on the cap plate (yellow) andjack screw (red) if a load is place on the wedge (it's inside theassy). Please see picture. I have used bolted connections for thecap plate. The global contact is set to no penetration. I havecreated a bonded contact set between the O.D. of the threadedportion of the jack screw and the hole that it is threaded into inthe wedge. So, the load will push the slide (maroon I guess) inwhich forces the wedge up and pushes the shouldered jack screwagainst the cap plate.

My questions are as follows:

I have run the study several times and only gotten results oncewithout an error. Most of the time I get "Equilibrium is notachieved". On one or two occasions I got "large displacementdetected do you want to turn on large displacement mode?" I think Ieven got an error about convergence... Not 100% on that one.

What do I do about not reaching equilibrium? I sorta understandthe large displacement error except the one time I got results themax displacement was .0007 (m) which equates to .027" Thatcertainly doesn't seem very large. Also, does Cosmos tell you ifyour bolted connector fails? You have to input the material datafor the bolted connection but does it report on the simulated boltitself or do I have to model the bolt if I want those results?

Thanks in advance,
AaronSolidworksSimulation