Virtual Connector Pins
Connect an arbitrary number of coaxial cylindrical faces.
- Rotating: Rotating pins can rotate around the axis of the cylindrical faces (sliding in circumferential direction) but cannot slide along the axis. It acts like a hinge about the axis of cylindrical faces between the connected parts.
- Bonded: Bonded Virtual Pins are glued into the support faces.
- Sliding: Sliding pins can rotate around the axis of the cylindrical faces (sliding in circumferential direction) and slide along the axis.
Virtual connectors create perfectly rigid boundaries, stresses along the boundary faces can have local concentrations.