Boundary Conditions Menu

The following boundary condition tools are available:

Auto-Contact

Quickly and easily create one or more contact interfaces at once between several parts of your model. This tool is only available when the OptiStruct user profile is loaded.

Card Editor

Select the entities that are viewed in the card image subpanel.

Constraints

Place constraints or enforced displacements on a model.

Contact Surfaces

Create and modify contactsurf entities.

Contour Loads Utility

Create contour plots of applied loads and boundary conditions contained within load collectors.

Delete

Delete data from a model database, preview and delete empty collectors and preview and delete unused property collectors, material collectors, or curves.

Equations

Create, review and update equations.

Flux

Apply concentrated fluxes to your model.

Forces

Create concentrated forces.

Interfaces

Create and modify interfaces.

Line Loads

Allows total loads (forces and moments) to be applied in a distributed manner on nodes even though the load is applied on geometry lines or set of nodes forming ordered edges.

Loads on Geom

Map loads or boundary conditions from geometrical entities (loads on geometry) to the associated FE mesh entities (loads on mesh).

Loads Summation

Creates a summary of the loads (node-based forces or moments and element-based pressures) applied to a model.

Moments

Create concentrated moments.

Organize

Allows you to (re)organize your database by copying or moving data (entities) among collectors or includes.

Pressures

Create concentrated pressures.

Renumber

Renumber entities.

Systems

Create rectangular, cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems.

Temperatures

Create temperature constraints.