Reply To: Resolving Joint Issues and Comparing Beam and Shell Models in Ansys Mechanical S

[mjmiddle]

The geometry intersecting is not a limiting problem if the bodies are not a in one multibody part. If they are all in the same part and you want them meshed together as node-connected then you have some hard geometry edting to do. And STL can't really be edited well anyway since it's mesh. You would want to create CAD geometry over them to relace them (in SpaceClaim). Then you can handle how the geometry meets at the intersection in the geometry editor.

However, if you don't care about having node-connected mesh at this interface, then it's easy. Just select the edges at the end to connect with a bonded contact or fixed body-body joint. For a bonded contact make sure you set the pinball radius bigger than the gap, and set to MPC type. The MPC type will not have any problems with the intersection.

The pivot warning is probably because you have no connections of any kind for the bodies at this interface.