Contact Sizing creates elements of relatively the same size on bodies from the faces of a face to face or face to edge contact region. This control generates spheres of influence internally with automatic determination of radius and size (if is selected for Type). You may want to apply a method control on sweepable bodies to force the elements to be tetrahedron in the case where the sweeper is not providing enough local sizing near your contact region. Your swept mesh may be quite dense if the contact size is small on the source and target faces of the body. You may also see very little effect on swept bodies in the case where a contact size is applied to a very small region of a large source face.
To access the Contact Sizing,
On the Tree Outline, right-click Mesh and click Insert > Contact Sizing.
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On the Tree Outline, click Mesh and click Method in the Mesh Context tab on the Ribbon.
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Right-click a body, face, edge, or vertex, and then select Insert > Contact Sizing.
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On the Tree Outline, drag a Contact Region or Contacts folder from the Connections to Mesh.
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On the Tree Outline, right-click Contact Region from the Connections and click Create > Contact Sizing.
Scope
Contact Region: Allows you to scope the contact region.
Definition
Suppressed: Allows you to suppress the selected control. The default value is No. When Suppressed is set to Yes, the Active field displays the status of the selected control. The Active field is read-only.
Type: Allows you to select the type of contact meshing. The default value is. The available options are:
Resolution: Allows you to specify a value for relative size. The default value is 4. You can parametrize Resolution.
Element Size: Specify an element size to control mesh sizing. Enter a positive value (decimals are allowed) in this field. Smaller values generate more divisions. When you select Element Size, the Element Sizeoptions allow you to specify the value for absolute size. The default value is 0 mm. When you specify a value different from the global Defeature Size, it overrides the global value. You can parametrize Element Size.
Note:
You can select two bodies in the Geometry window and use the Go To > Contact Sizing Common to Selected Bodies option to identify any contact sizing controls that exist between the two bodies. This feature provides an easy way for you to delete the common controls.
Because Contact Sizing objects cannot be duplicated, they cannot be used as template objects for the Object Generator.