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[jeon hyeon min]

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?

[Aniket]

If it is one time operation, you can use project tool to project the solid imprints on the midsurface:

-Aniket

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[jeon hyeon min]

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?