When your upstream External Model source file includes rigid remote connections, an Imported folder appears beneath the Connections parent folder when you open the file in Mechanical. This object is a simple group folder. It contains the child objects: Rigid Connectors. The data associated with the imported connections is provided through the Worksheet. Worksheet content, including default settings, is based on the data in the external file. If a connector is scoped to a node that is not attached to the geometry, you can promote and/or copy the connector, otherwise, no promote and/or copy options are available.
You can deactivate/active Worksheet entries using the Active selection box in the table or through the right-click context menu.
Supported Analysis Types
Imported Rigid Remote Connectors are supported by the following analysis types:
Coupled Field Analyses
Harmonic Response
Modal
Static Structural
Transient Structural
Steady-State Thermal
Transient Thermal
Supported Source File Commands
The application imports the following source file data/commands as rigid remote connections:
CDB: Contact/Target pairs with:
NASTRAN: RBE2. For this command, Mechanical processes the master node and the dependent nodes and their degrees of freedom (DOFs). All other data is ignored.
ABAQUS:
*COUPLING and *KINEMATIC commands are processed but the orientation field is ignored.
*KINEMATIC COUPLING command is processed but the orientation field is ignored.
*MPC, TYPE = BEAM.
LS-DYNA: *CONSTRAINED_NODAL_RIGID_BODY is processed, but the INERTIA option of this keyword is not supported.
See the Imported: Rigid Remote Connectors object reference section for additional information.