How to define contact surface using selecting the elements ?

Hi,

Please refer to the tutorial HM-4320: Defining Abaqus Contacts for 3-D Models in HyperMesh

Thanks. It was helpful.

Hi Ahilan,

When you define faces of the solid elements (which are used to define the sruface nodes), be sure to use a temporary collector for the elements. If you use face elements provided by hypermesh, at the time you create the surface the face elements will be deleted by hypermesh.

I usually create the face elements, then move the elements to a temporary collector so hypermesh cant delete them. Then you can select the nodes using the new face elements in the temporary collector.