Beams, Shells and Bonded Contact

[@JoseOliveira-lz1up]

Good to know about the contact tool feature, I've faced a lot of issues that could be solved by this. Thanks for the great content!

[@johnparsons695]

Hey great video, thank you for putting this together. Also the reason your first model failed is because formulation was set to program controlled. MPC is the formulation needed to joint vertices to edge nodes. Thanks again nice video

[@ansysfeaexamples9351]

Thanks for the comment John.

[@Kasabwalamanan]

Great explanation! thank you.

[@wqjkdqjzhang8636]

the way you move/fly over the cad is very cool. Is it a mouse? what device is that?

[@ansysfeaexamples9351]

I use a SpaceMouse. 3dconnexion.com/us/

[@shannybabayaga]

What if I don't have holes? How do I control the beam location?

[@ansysfeaexamples9351]

If you have beams that touch a surface meshed with shell elements, you can create a contact between the beam vertices and the face. The pinball radius will find nodes on the surface within the pinball radius to create the bond with.