{"id":345909,"date":"2024-01-22T13:48:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-plot-contact-elements-in-mechanical-workbench\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T13:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:48:27","slug":"how-to-plot-contact-elements-in-mechanical-workbench","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-plot-contact-elements-in-mechanical-workbench\/","title":{"rendered":"How to plot contact elements in Mechanical workbench."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hii Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I am getting this warning in solver output for a static structural analysis,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*** WARNING ***&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CP =&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2001.062&nbsp;&nbsp; TIME= 14:12:43<br \/>&nbsp;Contact element 92982 (real ID 127) status changes abruptly from&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;contact (with target element 96374) -&gt; no-contact.<\/p>\n<p>As there are many of such warnings with some contact elements, due to which solution is not converging and, since it is not solved I am not able to plot contact elements by user defined option under solution.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to know if its possible to plot contact elements or navigate to those contact surfaces which are changing its status abruptly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-345909","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["337187","58821"],"_bbp_author_ip":["96.7.218.215"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1419"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["345909"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["58821","337187"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["345916"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["345916"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-01-22 14:01:20"]},"test":"manu-sncoreel-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/345909","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\/345909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}