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The following are the lists of known problems that have been identified in CAST Version 0.9.11 (Last Updated on January 26, 2004). Solutions to fix them are also provided in the list. Please note that these problems do not always occur; they occur only if your computer settings are not compatible with CAST or the CAST model you create is not appropriate.

List of problems resulted from incompatibility of your computer settings with CAST:

No.

Problem Symptom

Reason and Solution

1.

During creating a design summary in Microsoft Word Document format, the following error message appears:

Unexpected error 5941 in CCreateMSWordDoc.CreateTemplate().
The requested member of the collection does not exist

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Thanks to individuals who have kindly notified us of the above problems.

List of problems resulted from improper CAST modeling:

No.

Problem Symptom

Reason and Solution

1.

During truss analysis, the following error message is displayed:

Excessive loss of accuracy in the solution process of load condition:
'abc'
The analysis has to be terminated.
The strut-and-tie model that you created is not stable.

where: abc is a load condition name defined in CAST model.

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If you encountered errors that are not listed here, please notify us using the information provided here.

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Last update: December 19, 2003