Creating self-contact for OptiStruct in SimLab.
Naveen Jagadeesan
New Altair Community Member
How to create self-contact for OptiStruct in SimLab?
To create self-contact for OptiStruct in SimLab, kindly do the following steps,
- Create a surface element face set for the face you need to define self-contact using Analysis > Sets > Surface.
- Open Text Data from Solution Browser > Solution > Right Click > Text Data.
- Define contact through Text Data by leaving the main set identification (MSID) number blank in the contact card definition and input the created surface set ID as secondary set ID (SSID).
- Export the created Solution as solver input file using Solution > Right Click > Export Solver Input File and the self-contact information will be included in the deck file.
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