Managing Contacts

Contact defines a mechanical contact between two or more components involved in a mechanism.

You can create a single engineering connection for several components at the same time by selecting two groups with multiple products, but each group must have at least one element.

  1. Click under Group 1.
    The Group1 selection panel opens.
  2. From the active product, select one or several components, and click OK.
  3. To remove a product from a group, select it in the list and click .
  4. To select all the products of a group, click .
    Once selected, the products are highlighted in the 3D area.
  5. Click the Restitution Collision Model or Surfacic Contact Model tab, depending on the integrator you want to use.
  6. Specify the contact properties of the contact model.

The Contact Engineering Connection is created and appears in the tree under the Engineering Connections node of the active product.

 

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