How to imprint washer contact on plate midsurface? (SpaceClaim)

- August 18, 2023 at 4:35 am
  
  jeon hyeon min
  Subscriber
  
  Hi, I wanna ask how to imprintnwasher contact area on midsurface of plate.
  The figure below shows that 3 plates are connected by 3 bolts and nuts.
  I want to make Bolt Pretension on each bolt.
  
  But the problem happens, when I imprint bolt and nut's washer area like figure below.
  Before make midsurfaces of plates, you can see the area of washer imprinted by bolt.
  When I make midsurfaces of plates like figure below, those areas disappear.
  
  So I cannot make bolt pretension in Workbench Mechanical.
  How can I imprint those washer areas on plates's midsurface?
- August 18, 2023 at 12:49 pm
  
  Aniket Chavan
  Forum Moderator
  
  If it is one time operation, you can use project tool to project the solid imprints on the midsurface:
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  - August 19, 2023 at 1:54 pm
    
    jeon hyeon min
    Subscriber
    
    Thank you Aniket!
    But the problem is, there are so many plates around those bolts. So if I use Projection, Bolt's projected areas are imprinted to plates that I don't want...
    Is there any other way?