Only available with the Generative Assembly Structural Analysis (GAS) product.
Connection properties are assembly connections used to specify the boundary interaction between bodies in an assembled system. Once the geometric assembly positioning constraints are defined at the Product level, the user can specify the physical nature of the constraints.
- About Connection Properties
- Give information about connection properties.
Face Face Connection Properties
- Create Slider Connection Properties
- Fasten bodies together at their common interface in the normal direction while allowing them to slide relative to each other in the tangential directions.
- Create Contact Connection Properties
- Prevent bodies from penetrating each other at a common interface.
- Create Fastened Connection Properties
- Fasten bodies together at their common interface.
- Create Fastened Spring Connection Properties
- Create an elastic link between two faces.
- Create Pressure Fitting Connection Properties
- Prevent bodies from penetrating each other at a common interface.
- Create Bolt Tightening Connection Properties
- Prevent bodies from penetrating each other at a common interface.
Distant Connection Properties
- Create Rigid Connection Properties
- Create a link between two bodies which are stiffened and fastened together at their common boundary, and will behave as if their interface was infinitely rigid.
- Create Smooth Connection Properties
- Create a link between two bodies which are fastened together at their common boundary, and will behave approximately as if their interface was soft.
- Create Virtual Rigid Bolt Tightening Connection Properties
- Take into account pre-tension in a bolt-tightened assembly in which the bolt is not included.
- Create Virtual Spring Bolt Tightening Connection Properties
- Specify the boundary interaction between bodies in an assembled system.
- Customize User-defined Connection Properties
- Specify the types of elements as well as their associated properties included inside a distant connection.
Welding Connection Properties
- Create Spot Welding Connection Properties
- Create a link between two bodies, using analysis welding point connections.
- Create Seam Welding Connection Properties
- Create a link between two bodies, using analysis seam weld connections.
- Create Surface Welding Connection Properties
- Create a link between two bodies, using analysis surface weld connections.
Point Based Connection Properties
- Create Nodes to Nodes Connection Properties
- Create a link between two bodies, using points to points analysis connections.
- Create Node Interface Properties
- Create a link between two bodies, using point interface connections.