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December 1, 2023 at 6:34 pm
Reno Genest
Ansys Employee
Hello Estojia,
I had a closer look at this and I think there might have a mistake in the R13 user manual. I ran a model with 2 beams connected with *CONSTRAINED_INTERPOLATION_SPOTWELD with the latest DEV SMP double precision solver and I get the following error message:
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Also, If I look at the DEV user manual, I can see the following:
Also, the PID1 and PID2 expect a "sheet" which is represented by shell elements.
So, I am not sure beams can be connected with *CONSTRAINED_INTERPOLATION_SPOTWELD. Let me double check with the developer.
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Reno.