{"id":398621,"date":"2024-12-27T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/automatic-creation-of-face-edge-and-edge-edge-contacts\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T15:31:54","slug":"automatic-creation-of-face-edge-and-edge-edge-contacts","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/automatic-creation-of-face-edge-and-edge-edge-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic creation of face-edge and edge-edge contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;I need to model a series of composite bodies with shell elements with &#8220;layered section&#8221;.&lt;br&gt;So I converted all the solid bodies into surfaces with SpaceClaim, and extended the surfaces to bring them in contact. In Ansys Workbench, being all different bodies, I have to create the contacts so that there is continuity of the movements, and no body is labile. Although I have set the Connection Group properties to define Face-Edge and Edge-Edge contacts, auto-detection only defines Face-Face contacts. Also, most of these contacts are also wrong because they bind together complanar surfaces that in reality are separated by a surface to them orthogonal, so I should have two Edge-Face contacts rather than the Face-Face contact.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any advice on what to pay attention to so that these contacts are properly self-defined? I would not want to start creating them by hand, one by one&#8230;.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-398621","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-compositematerials-1","topic-tag-contact"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_topic_id":["398621"],"_bbp_subscription":["497030","5977"],"_bbp_author_ip":["79.13.50.226"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["408347"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["408347"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-02-04 16:05:55"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["497030","5977"],"_btv_view_count":["636"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_notification_enabled":["497030"]},"test":"andreabarbagallo-ab7gmail-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/398621","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\/398621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}