Tips, Tricks, and Inquiries: Setting up Tie Contact

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Altair Employee
edited December 2021 in Altair HyperWorks

In this Tips, Tricks, and Inquiries demo we take a look at how to set up TIE contact in HyperWorks 2021. TIE contact acts as a sort of glue for the model, connecting parts together to represent contact in a way that can be solved linearly.


In this video you will learn:

  • How to create TIE contact in overlapping and edge-to-edge cases
  • How to review contact connections to ensure connectivity
  • A few helpful hints at how to best model TIE connections


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Links to the help articles mentioned in the video: Contact, CONTPRM, TIE