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In Nastran the deformable links, RBE3, can connect all or some of the degrees of freedom. Does ANSYS do the same?

Tagged: 19.2, General, mechanical, structural-mechanics
    • January 25, 2023 at 7:34 am
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      RBE2 (rigid) can be related to our Rigid Remote Points, the same cannot be said of RBE3. Nastran RBE3 requires the user to put weight values (which can be hard to calculate by hand for a general, non-uniform mesh), but our weight functions are calculated automatically by the solver.

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