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Mechanical Intro 17.0 M02 Preprocessing PDF
Mechanical Intro 17.0 M02 Preprocessing PDF
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Contact elements can be visualized as a “skin” covering the regions where contact will occur.
Contact is covered in more depth in Module 6: “Connections and Remote Boundary Conditions.”
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• Named selections must be composed of “like” entities (all surfaces or all edges, all nodes, etc.).
− A named selection toolbar provides quick access to basic controls “View > Toolbars > Named
Selections”:
In this example the object to be generated (the mesh size control) required only a single
geometry selection, a face, to define its scope. Some objects that can be duplicated require
multiple scoping selections (e.g. contacts, beam connections, etc.). We’ll look at this next.
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Goal:
Determine the torque required in the
gear to produce the desired output.