Bolt

A bolt links two sets of parts with:

•	an undeformable connection. The two sets of parts are linked with one rigid body. (This option is called "rigid bolt".); or

•	a deformable connection. One rigid body is created for each set of parts. Those two rigid bodies are linked with a spring type beam (type 13). This option is called "bolt with spring".

The slave nodes of the rigid body(ies) are searched in the cylinder defined below:

connection_02

All the nodes of the selected parts (set 1 and set 2) inside the cylinder will be added to the bolt.

connection_19

Rigid Bolt

connection_20

Bolt with spring

The parameters' default values are defined in the file, <install directory>/environment/.../bolt/boltdef. This file contains:

•	the version number

•	the default bolt's name

•	the default property name

•	L1 , L2 , D

•	the spring length (1 mm)