Locating Contacting Bodies

You can use the contacting parts tool to locate any touching bodies in your model. This tool helps you identify where you might need to define contact or connections to ensure a successful simulation. Any geometric entities that align and just touch one another are listed and can be highlighted.

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About Contact Tools
  1. From the Interactions section of the action bar, click Show Contacting Bodies .
  2. Specify a Search domain.

    By default, the app searches the whole model for contacting surfaces. You can select candidate geometry supports by clicking individual components in the model.

  3. Click Find Contacts.
    The table lists any touching surfaces. You can click a row in the table to highlight the corresponding surfaces in the model.
  4. Close the dialog box.
  5. Define appropriate contact or connection features for these parts using general contact, surface-based contact, or connections.