Fully constraint sandwich panel with distributed load

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Thanks, tried that and when running from cmd, as described here

Using standalone CalculiX

Some PrePoMax users may not be used to running analyses outside of this GUI. And it’s sometimes necessary, for example in those cases: changes that can’t be handled by the keyword editor (like unsupported element types) submitting many analyses with small differences between them testing different versions of CalculiX Here’s how to do it on Windows: Download the package with CalculiX files from http://www.dhondt.de/ [ccx download] After unpacking, you can use the solver by just puttin…

I’m getting this error message of mkl_rt.2.dll was not found for ccx_dynamic:

calculix error msg.png

when using ccx_static instead, it appears to be running but gives this error:
*Error in linstatic : the PARDISO library is not linked
This is the file: sandwichPARDISO.inp - Google Drive
same is true when i change the solver in Prepomax to Pastix before exporting as inp

Example inp files from https://www.dhondt.de/ run well but only using static.

Not sure what this means…