CONTACTGEN

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Automated Surface Contact Generation (ASCG). A value between 0 and 5 defines the type of contact generated. The program automatically finds solid and shell element faces in or near contact and generates the appropriate contact element type between them. There are six options: 0 - Automated surface contact generation is disabled. 1 - Symmetric general contact is enabled. 2 - Symmetric welded contact is enabled. 3 - Symmetric bi-directional sliding contact is enabled. 4 - Symmetric rough contact is enabled. 5 - Symmetric offset welded contact is enabled. The character variables: DISABLE, GENERAL, WELDED, SLIDE, ROUGH, and OFFSET may be used in place of the numerical options 0 through 5. See also CONTACTTOL.	0 ≤ Real ≤ 5 DISABLE/ GENERAL/ WELDED/ SLIDE/ ROUGH/ OFFSET	0