| 1. | From the Menu Bar, select Contact Interfaces > Check. |
In the interface list, those with a green interface have a correct definition, the orange ones have to be checked, and the red ones have a bad definition.
| 2. | In the listing window, click the contact interface line to select one interface. |
| 3. | Click  to display the interface. |
| 4. | Check the error or warning message in the Message window. |
| 5. | Using the pop-up function (right button on the mouse in the interface list window): |
| • | Click See Incompat. Kinematic Cond. on Slaves to view slave nodes of tied interfaces with incompatible kinematic conditions. |
| • | Click See Slave nodes no proj. to view slave nodes which cannot be projected on the master surface of the tied interface. |
| • | Click See Slave nodes in Multiple Interfaces to view slave nodes which are included in several tied interfaces. |
| • | Click See Interfaces. Slave Nodes in Master Surface to view slave nodes of tied interfaces which are also defined in the master surfaces of the same or other tied interfaces. |
| • | Click Check penetrations selected interfaces |
| • | Click Time History >> Add or Remove |
| 8. | Click Save to save the modified interface. |
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Click Save + Sym. to save the interface and automatically create its symmetric: the slave side becomes the master and the master side becomes the slave (not available for a Self-Impact interface).
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Click Cancel to cancel the contact interface modification.
| 9. | Click Close to close the menu. |
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