Hi, When you use enforced, the program applies a very stiff spring along the degree of freedom

that is restrained. Thus, that degree of freedom is an active one in the stiffness matrix and hence solved for, except, its value will turn out to be zero during the calculations. When you treat it as FIXED, that d.o.f is eliminated from the stiffness matrix, and is treated as a known value of zero, and thus not calculated. From a numerical standpoint, they both produce the same result. However, enforced has some advantages such as it is suitable for solving support settlement problems when plates and solids are present in the model. The FIXED support does not lend itself easily to such problems.