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October 18, 2024 at 8:22 am
mohan.urs
Ansys Employee

Hey,

Check out this course to learn more about how to postprocess initial contact results. How To Check Initial Contact Conditions Prior to Solving — Lesson 1 - ANSYS Innovation Courses

For your second question,

  1. It is not required to remove automatically generated contacts and redo all the contacts. But it is recommended to check all the contact regions and make sure that they are what you intending it them to be. Initially all the contacts generated will be bonded which might not be what you want. So do check all the contacts befoer proceeding.
  2. Initial contact tool results are based on the mesh you've generated. If you have too fine of a mesh or a very big model with a lot of contacts, It usually takes more time. Do post the # of contacts you have and the mesh statistics to help you regarding this.

Thanks