Create Attachments from Features: Nodes

Create attachments from features for nodes.

This option lets you define a node, or series of nodes explicitly as an attachment. This use case is for capturing difficult geometry as attachments, or for defining the center node of a pre-existing rigid spider as an attachment. These attachments support a Name and will push the name to the 10th field of the node for OptiStruct and Nastran.

  1. In the Connector Browser, right-click and select Create > Attachment > From Features.
    The Create Attachment Connectors dialog opens.
  2. In the Search Type field, select Node from the drop-down list.


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  3. Click in the Location entity field to display the Nodes selector.
  4. Select nodes from the model.
  5. Click Proceed.
  6. Click Create.
    Node attachments are created.