Contact Surfaces - Help Needed

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Dear Friends,

I have started using Hypermesh very recently. I am pre-processing a lorry chassis. I have the model imported from Catia, made the side members and cross members as midsurfaces. Now I am unable to Create a contact between two members, say a side member and a cross member, which have surface contact.. Can anyone help me please?:-s :-s

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2010

    Contact surfaces are created on elements and nodes not on geometry. After you have meshed the parts depending on your solver use contact manager from utility tab or interfaces panel.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2010

    Dear Ram,

    Thanks.. I found it and managed to create contact between the elements.

    Saravanan

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2011

    Dear All,

    I´m trying also to create contact between two solid in HM but the problem is that, when I´m creating the Interface between two csurfs, after clicking create/edit button, I get an error message in SSID and MSID fields. Normally, in my opinion, there should stay the ID number of the slave and the master csurf, am I right ? I´ve created the contact surfaces as solid faces and I making all steps according to HyperWorks Tip/Trick # 1007 sheet.

    Why the interface didn´t find created csurfs ? Need they some special properties ?

    Thanks in advance for Your reply.

    Reagrds

    adikkk

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