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Auto-Contact Missing

Hi,
I have a problem by making an Auto-Contact in Hypermesh. Somehow the Auto-Contact function is missing under Tools. It should be at 'Pretension Manager', but I can't find. I tried to refresh my User Profile to Optistruct, but it didnt help. Thank you for the answers!

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Altair Forum User

Hi,

Check this forum post:

migid

Hi,

Thank You for your answer! I found it, but I cant modify the choosenelements az the Contact surface, as I could before. I want to modify my Master and my Slave surfaces, but I can only pick them by Contactsurface entity. Furthermore I choose the entity type: Surfaces, and it adds, an other nameformat for the Contactsurface then the other version of Auto-Contact. I marked the different names. Does it matter? Arent they the same?

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Altair Forum User

Hi @migid

1) To change the elements for the respective contact surface component, toggle to Elements and select the elements as shown in the image below.

Furthermore I choose the entity type: Surfaces, and it adds, an other nameformat for the Contactsurface then the other version of Auto-Contact. I marked the different names. Does it matter? Arent they the same?

I am sorry, I did not understand what exactly you mean. But I can see that the contacts surface elements are from different component.

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migid

Hi @Prakash Pagadala

Thank you for the quick answer, I found it. Somehow, I missed the toggle options 'Elems'.

My second question would be, that the Name of the contact surface get a 'Csurf_' part in his name automatically, which was not make by the older Method(Tool-> Auto Contact) of Creating Contactsurface before. I dont know if it does any differences or not. I marked it, on the picture. The last to Contactsurfaces were made by the new Method (Contact Tool->AutoContact), the others were made by the old method. It does not mean any differences I think, or do?

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Altair Forum User

The name shouldn't be a problem while solving /emoticons/default_smile.png' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' title=':)' width='20'>

What matters is the elements underlying the contact surface.

migid

Thank you! /emoticons/default_smile.png' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' title=':)' width='20' />

Altair Forum User

Is autocontact works in hyperwoks 12.0 ?

Rahul Rajan_21763

yes this feature is available in 12.0 version.I have checked this in 12.0.110 desktop optistruct user profile.It is always recommeneded to use latest version.PFA screenshot for same.

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