{"id":164304,"date":"2021-11-26T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/workbench-share-topology-option-and-component-share-topology-option-in-spaceclaim\/"},"modified":"2021-11-27T19:15:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T19:15:55","slug":"workbench-share-topology-option-and-component-share-topology-option-in-spaceclaim","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/workbench-share-topology-option-and-component-share-topology-option-in-spaceclaim\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Workbench’ Share Topology option, and ‘Component’ Share Topology option in SpaceClaim."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have a few structures close to each other, and they are resulting in a enormous number of contact elements after I built bonded contacts between them. For this reason, I want to avoid establishing any contact and only use Share Topology option in SpaceClaim.<\/p>\n

Now, when I go to SpaceClaim, and click on the 'Workbench' button on the upper taskbar, then I see an option for Share and I can also adjust the coincidence tolerance for the share, in order to detect the bodies between which I want to share the topologies. However, some of the faces\/edges get detected while some doesn't. I tried playing with the coincidence tolerance alot but still I didn't reach the perfect share topology which will make me avoid using even a single bonded contact.<\/p>\n

After then, one of my friend suggested me that I should transfer all of the bodies into a new Component, and then under the Analysis option, I will see the Share Topology option and I can then choose from there what kind of share topology I want between all the bodies which I just transferred into a new single component. I saw three options there, i.e. Share. Group and Merge under Share Topology.<\/p>\n

Can anyone tell me what would be the difference between  'Workbench' Share Topology option, and 'Component' Share Topology option in SpaceClaim? Which one should be be chosen when? Does Share Topology work in exactly the same manner in both of these cases? Which option (Share, Group, Merge) for Share Topology should be chosen?<\/p>\n

I tried using the share option only, for Share Topology under Analysis option, after forming a new component which includes all the structural bodies, but it just happened within milliseconds and no time was taken at all to share the topologies between the overlapping faces\/edges (which usually happens when I directly use the Share option under Workbench option).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-164304","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-shared-topology","topic-tag-spaceclaim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_view_count":["296"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["12252"],"_bbp_subscription":["254588","272542"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["164304"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["200","240","180472","272542"],"_bbp_voice_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count":["11"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["246411"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["246411"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-01-13 04:04:31"]},"test":"rameez_ul_haq"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}