Support Tool Guides and Options
Support Tool Guides
The following tool guides are available:
| Direction tool | The Direction tool defines the direction of the applied condition. When this tool is active, select an entity (a geometry or direction in the local coordinate system) to align the direction with that entity. |
Support Types
The following support types are available:
| Fixed | Movement is prevented in any direction, including rotations. |
| Sliding | Rotation is prevented except for normal to the planar surfaces where it is free to rotate about the normal to the plane. |
| Hinged | Only applicable to cylindrical surfaces. With this support type, the support is free to rotate about that axis, which is defined as along the line of the cylinder. |
| Ball | Only applicable to spherical surfaces. Prevents translational degrees of freedom. |
| Displaced | Allows you to set the possible directions for moving and rotating. For each axis, you can specify whether it's fixed or free to move or rotate. |
Support Tool Options
The following options are available for the Displaced support type:
| Displacement | Enter a displacement value. |
| dx, dy, dz | Define the rotation of the support. Specify 0 to prevent any motion in a given direction. The available directions will depend on the support type. |
| 0x, 0y, 0z | Define the translation of the support. Specify 0 to prevent any motion in a given direction. The available directions will depend on the support type. |