Overconstraining the model

Just as multiple conflicting boundary conditions should not be defined at a given node, multi-point constraints and contact conditions enforced with the kinematic method generally should not be defined at the same node because they may generate conflicting kinematic constraints. Unless the constraints are entirely orthogonal to one another, the model will be overconstrained; the resulting solution will be quite noisy, as Abaqus/Explicit tries to satisfy the conflicting constraints. Penalty contact constraints and multi-point constraints acting on the same nodes will not generate conflicts because the penalty constraints are not enforced as strictly as the multi-point constraints.