Connect components
Hey there,
I try to build up a modell consisting of many components. In reality these components have contact to each other and so i create the midsurfes of all the components and assigned shell elements to them. So when you display the shell elememts with their thikness the components have contact. Now i want to connect the nodes of the shell elements. (the white surface has conntact with the red surface and the red surface has conntact with the grey surface)
Whats the best strategy to do that? equalizing the nodes is no solution, because all components have different thinkesses. I thought that it would be possible to use rigid elements (rbe2) then i have to connect every single node. So i tried to use area connection funktion and also the spot funciton, but then optistruct returns: A dependent d.o.f. defined more than once in rigid element entry.
Can you help me?