Engineering Solutions

Load Step: Output Request: ODB File: Contact Output

Load Step: Output Request: ODB File: Contact Output

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Load Step: Output Request: ODB File: Contact Output

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The Contact Output tab allows you to define *CONTACT OUTPUT for the selected Output block. The following parameters are supported: Nlset, Master, Slave, General Contact, and Variable.  Activate/deactivate the check boxes in the tree on the Contact Output tab to add/remove identifier keys in the table.  The data lines added in this manner have a gray background, indicating they cannot be manually edited.  You may also add user-defined identifiers, by typing them directly into the table.  The user-defined data lines appear with a white background, indicating they are editable.

Right-click on the Data lines table to display menu options.  The available options are Cut, Copy, Paste, Add row, and Delete row.

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The Contact Output tab has the following buttons:

Create/Edit…

Opens the Entity Sets panel.  When you finish creating/editing the set, click return.  The Step Manager is updated with the new set appearing in the node set list.

Review

Reviews the selected node sets, master surface, or slave surface by highlighting them in the Engineering Solutions graphics.  Right-click on the Review button to clear the review selections.

Update

Updates the Engineering Solutions database with the data lines defined in the table and the parameters.

 

 

See Also:

Output request

Abaqus Step Manager Overview