Equivilance for SPC

John Duff_21716
John Duff_21716 Altair Community Member
edited December 2020 in Community Q&A

To check if for eg a RBE2 is connected to a mesh, or update that connection after importing a new mesh Hypermesh has the Equivalence tool; what about for SPCs? Is there an 'equivalent' tool to check a SPC is connected to a RBE2

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  • NickZ
    NickZ
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2021 Answer ✓

    You can use the find panel to find elements attached to loads.

    Tool->find

    Then find attached elems attached to loads.

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  • NickZ
    NickZ
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2021 Answer ✓

    You can use the find panel to find elements attached to loads.

    Tool->find

    Then find attached elems attached to loads.

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited December 2020

    Hi,

    because SPCs are created on Nodes, you cannot use equivalence tool to check or equivalence them to mesh

    so if you need to check, just follow above guide of @Nick Zagorski 

    if you need to equivalence SPCs to new mesh, just create temporary elements on the SPCs (example: mass elements)

    then you can select those elements to equivalence to new mesh. Delete temporary elems finally (should create them in a private ^component, and delete that comp)

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