Automatic Bonding Between Touching Entities
Enhanced algorithms automatically bond touching entities for the following
cases:
A face or edge of a shell with a solid.
A face or edge of a shell with another shell.
A face of a shell with a structural member.
Shells refer to both sheet metals and surfaces. You can apply loads,
fixtures, contacts and connectors to the sheet metal and they get transferred
to the mid-surface automatically. See Applying
Loads and Fixtures to Shells.
For touching faces of sheet metal components that mesh with shells created
at mid-surfaces, the program transfers the bonding contact to mid-surface
shells automatically.
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Surface edge touching a sheet metal face |
Side view of mesh (zoomed) |
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Sheet metal faces touching each other |
View of Mesh at Mid-Surfaces |
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Solid face touching a sheet metal face |
Side view of mesh (zoomed) |
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Bonding between touching structural members with a sheet metal face
is also automatically created and transferred to mid-surface shells.
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Structural members touching a sheet metal face |
Side view of mesh (zoomed) |
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Note: You need to
manually define bonding for touching non-planar faces that mesh with shell
elements. However, automatic bonding occurs for touching edges of surfaces
with non-planar faces.
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Touching non-planar faces of shells |
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