Defines conditions for individual contact and target pairs for a spot weld, which is used to connect individual surface body parts to form a surface body model assembly, just as a Contact Region object is used to form a solid model assembly. Several Spot Weld objects can appear as child objects under a Connection Group object. The Connection Group object name automatically changes to Contacts.
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Object Properties
The Details Pane properties for this object include the following.
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Tree Dependencies
Valid Parent Tree Object: Connections.
Insertion Methods
Use any of the following methods after highlighting Connections object:
Inserted automatically if spot welds are defined in the CAD model and you choose by right-clicking the Connections (or Contacts) object.
Click option on the Connections Context Tab.
Right-click the Connections (or Connection Group) object or in the Geometry window .
Right-click Options
In addition to common right-click options, relevant right-click options for this object include:
Merge Selected Contact Regions - appears if contact regions share the same geometry type.