42.8. Recommendations

When setting up a general contact analysis, consider the following hints and recommendations:

  • Consider the feature angle carefully when issuing GCGEN. Select a value that will produce the desired contact surfaces and edges.

    When using the exclude option (GCDEF,EXCL) along with node components (to identify surfaces), use the _FACE component name extension to exclude only surface contact. Otherwise, both surface and edge elements will be excluded by default.

  • Always verify the normal direction of the rigid surface target elements.