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I've tried on a few different days and the link is not working. Any alternate links?

Yeah what happened is that I wrote a program that automatically made a section defined in patches based off of input of the dimensions from AISC. It rounded widths to set the number of fibers in a direction so if the shape was thinner than half an inch it would make 0 fibers in that direction. I fix...

No I haven't yet. I'm building my models through opensees navigator so I can see that my elements, ect. are all correct. I've noticed though, that navigator writes some analysis incorrectly like the newmark integrator so I have to go through and change what it writes.

Okay cool! Yeah I went back and I found the issue. I have a program to automaticly build fiber sections for w shapes and it was putting 0 fibers in some directions.

When I run opensees it gives me this error talking about my fiber sections. Does anyone know what this means?

WARNING out of run to create fibers
WARNING - error constructing the section

I'm having problems with my model not converging. I'm using displacement beam columns and I've been reading around to see where convergence is an issue. I'm fairly new to finite modeling so I would like to know what are some basic ways to get a model to converge better. Can there be a convergence is...