Applying Fixed Displacement Restraints

You can apply a fixed displacement restraint, a generalized boundary condition, to restrict specific degrees of freedom for portions of your model.

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About Fixed Displacement Restraints
In Other Guides
Support Selection
  1. From the RestraintsScenarios section of the action bar, click Fixed Displacement .
  2. Optional: Enter a descriptive Name.
  3. Select the geometry supports in the model.

    You can apply a fixed displacement to one or more points, edges, or faces. You can also select a coupling connection, rigid body, or rigid surface; the restraint is applied to the reference point for the feature.

  4. Optional: From the Base options, choose Secondary to create a secondary base motion restraint.
    The app hides the Axis system definition when this option is selected for frequency steps.
  5. Select one of the following as the Axis system definition:
    OptionDescription
    Global Aligns the local feature triad with the global coordinate system.
    Local Aligns the local feature triad with a selected axis system in the model. If you select this axis system, you must also specify whether the axis system is Cartesian or Cylindrical.
    Specify Orients the local feature triad directly. Right-click the feature triad glyph on the model, and select an orientation tool.
    ImplicitAligns the axis system to the transformed axis system applied on the support.
  6. Select the restricted degrees of freedom.

    The degrees of freedom are oriented in terms of the local feature triad for the fixed displacement.

  7. Click OK.