Chapter 14: Remote Boundary Conditions Applied to Rigid Bodies

When you scope a Remote Force, Remote Displacement, or a Moment, to a face of a body whose Stiffness Behavior property is set to Rigid, the application applies the boundary condition to the centroid of the scoped face. This scenario can lead to an unwanted moment created about the centroid of the rigid body.

You can address this using the Apply to Rigid Body Pilot Node (Beta) property that is available for these remote boundary conditions. Property options include No (default) and Yes. When set to Yes, the application applies the remote boundary condition to the pilot node that is located at the centroid of the rigid body. Therefore, you must change the scoping of the boundary condition to target body when setting this property to Yes.