Deactivating Components / Entities for a Load Step

Altair Forum User

I am in a situation where I have 4 Load Steps on a model. One of the Applied forces in one of the load steps acts through an RBE3 spider.

I have another load on another load step that acts also acts through a different RBE3 with some overlap nodes.

 

Ideally I want the first RBE3 to be active during the first load step and not active during the second and visa versa.

 

Is it possible to do this? 

Altair Forum User

Hi Mahek,

 

Maybe you can have coincident nodes and have two RBE3s.

 

Try this approach and let us know if you are able to get reasonable results.