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[sdmahaney]

I have a very complicated model with lots of bolts and contact running well.

I can get bolt forces and reactions and plots like this contact pressure plot. But I don't see how to pick just one of these surfaces and get the total force on it.

A force reaction probe is defined on the contact set, but it looks like (after a couple hours to re-run) it's going to give me one set of totals for the whole set, not just one face pair.
 

[sdmahaney]

[this is in a Mechanical static structural study]

[sdmahaney]

What I'm accustomed to doing is like this screenshot from Solidworks simulation. The mating faces between two die inserts are picked in the 'contact force' tool.

[Charudatta Bandgar]

Hello Shawn Mahaney

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