Self contact

HI,

There are two ways to activate Self-Contact:

• Master and slave Set Identification numbers can point to the same set.
• Master Set Identification number can be blank.

Thanks

Hi,

For FINITE SLIDING and CONSLI, self contact will work? I am using 2017.2 version and it is throwing an error saying it is not possible for the FINITE and CONSLI...

I can't use SMALL sliding in my model since the relative displacement is large... any suggestions?

Regards,

Chethan

Hi,

Can you share the error message, please?

 *** ERROR # 4784 ***
 Finite sliding is not supported for self CONTACT 14 (SSID=MSID).
  
 *** Run terminated because of error(s) in the input data.
  

Solver FAILED

optistruct:: Solver run finished.

Hi,

Can you try with CONSLI?

 *** ERROR # 5911 ***
 Self contact is not supported for surface to surface 
continuous sliding CONTACT 14.
  
 *** Run terminated because of error(s) in the input data.

Self contact for S2S is supported from OptiStruct 2017.2.2 version.PFA screenshot from release notes. Latest version for OptiStruct is 2018 and latest patch 2018.0.1

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