Contact Options (for the Default Contact Type and Explicit Contact Pairs)

You can access the Contact Options dialog from two places:

• Double-click the Contact (Default:___) heading in the browser (tree-view), or right-click the heading and choose Edit Settings.
• Double-click an explicitly defined contact pair heading in the browser, or right-click the heading and choose Edit Settings.

The contents of the Contact Options dialog depend on several factors:

• The analysis type
• The contact type setting
• Whether you are accessing the dialog from the default contact heading or an explicit contact pair heading

Using the drop-down menu at the top of the Contact Options dialog, you can choose one of the following three options:

• SimMech contact options: Access the settings applicable to solutions run using the native Autodesk Simulation Mechanical solver.
• Nastran contact (CONTACTGENERATE) options (applicable to the default contact type when supported in Autodesk Nastran): Access the default contact settings applicable to solutions run using the Autodesk Nastran solver (CONTACTGENERATE parameters).
• Nastran contact (BSCONP) options (applicable to explicit contact pairs for contact types supported in Autodesk Nastran): Access the default contact settings applicable to solutions run using the Autodesk Nastran solver (BSCONP parameters).

Note: When a particular contact type is not supported in Nastran, the SimMech contact options mode is automatically activated, and the drop-down menu is inaccessible.

Please see one of the available reference topics (using the links below) for the SimMech-specific or Nastran-specific options.