Connect faces or spots to a ground support.
Three ground supports are available:
- Ball hinge: Ball hinge can rotate in any direction about the remote point.
- Rotating Hinge: Rotating hinge can only rotate about the hinge axis. The axis is
defined by the remote point coordinates and a vector.
- Rotating-slide hinge: Rotating-sliding hinge can rotate about the hinge axis and
also slide along the axis. The axis is defined by the remote point coordinates
and a vector.
Virtual connectors create perfectly
rigid boundaries, stresses along the boundary faces can have local
concentrations.
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In the Project Tree, click
on the Connections branch.
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On the Connections workbench, select .
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Create one of the following types of supports:
Type |
Process |
Ball hinge |
- In the Virtual connector dialog, select the
Ball hinge radio button.
- Under Apply to, use the radio buttons to specify whether to
apply connector to a Face or
Spot.
- If applying to Spots, you can create new spots by clicking
Create new spots.
- In the modeling window, click to select
specific parts on the model.
- The remote point
coordinates are set in COG by default. To edit the coordinates, uncheck the
Set in COG checkbox and specify values for the X,
Y, and Z fields.
|
Rotating hinge |
- In the Virtual connector dialog, select the
Rotating hinge radio button.
- Under Apply to, use the radio buttons to specify whether to
apply connector to a Face or
Spot.
- If applying to Spots, you can create new spots by clicking
Create new spots.
- In the modeling window, click to select
specific parts on the model.
- The remote point
coordinates are set in COG by default. To edit the coordinates, uncheck the
Set in COG checkbox and specify values for the X,
Y, and Z fields.
- Under Hinge axis, specify values for the X, Y, and Z
fields.
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Rotating-slide hinge |
- In the Virtual connector dialog, select the
Rotating-slide hinge radio
button.
- Under Apply to, use the radio buttons to specify whether to
apply connector to a Face or
Spot.
- If applying to Spots, you can create new spots by clicking
Create new spots.
- In the modeling window, click to select
specific parts on the model.
- The remote point
coordinates are set in COG by default. To edit the coordinates, uncheck the
Set in COG checkbox and specify values for the X,
Y, and Z fields.
- Under Hinge axis, specify values for the X, Y, and Z
fields.
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Click OK.
The connector appears in the Connections branch. If selected, it is
visually represented in the modeling window.