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Penetration Tab Toolbar 3: Manual Fix Tools

Penetration Tab Toolbar 3: Manual Fix Tools

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Penetration Tab Toolbar 3: Manual Fix Tools

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This toolbar displays along the bottom of the Penetration tab, but only when the show manual fix toolbar button in the second toolbar is active.

Button

Action

ManualFix_ElemsFromTree

Select Elements By Tree: When this mode is active, clicking the lowest-level component in the tree structure selects all of its failed elements.

ManualFix_ElemsManual

Select Elements Manually: When this mode is active, you can click each desired element belonging to the lowest-level component in the tree.  This includes the ability to select non-failed elements or a sub-set of the failed ones.

ManualFix_NodesFromTree

Select Nodes By Tree: When this mode is active, clicking the lowest-level component in the tree structure selects all of the penetrating nodes in its failed elements.  This differs from Select Elements By Tree in that individual nodes can be moved to fix a penetration (thus changing the shape of a failed element) instead of moving entire elements.

ManualFix_NodesManual

Select Nodes Manually: When this mode is active, you can click each desired node belonging to the lowest-level component in the tree.  This includes the ability to select individual nodes of non-failed elements, or a sub-set of nodes belonging to the failed elements.

ManualFix_MoveNormal

Manual Fixes: Fix Direction.  This modal button has several different possible functions, but each determines the direction that you wish to manually move the selected nodes or elements.  Click the small triangle in the bottom corner to display a list of possible functions and then click the desired function:

 
ManualFix_MoveNormalMove Normal: the nodes/elements move along the average normal of the selected elements (or related elements in the case of selected nodes).

 
ManualFix_MoveXMove in X Direction: the nodes/elements move along the X axis.

 
ManualFix_MoveYMove in Y Direction: the nodes/elements move along the Y axis.

 
ManualFix_MoveZMove in Z Direction: the nodes/elements move along the Z axis.

 
ManualFix_MoveOnVectorMove Along Vector: This method requires you to select an already-existing vector entity in your model.  Manually fixed Nodes/elements will then move along that vector.

 
ManualFix_MoveDirectByNodesMove Direction Defined By Nodes: This method requires you to pick nodes from your model to define the direction vector.  If you choose two nodes, they define the direction.  If you pick three nodes, the direction is the normal of the plane that these three nodes define (picking more than three nodes uses only the last three picked.)

ManualFix_MoveNegative

Move in Negative Direction: This button works in conjunction with the value entered in the numeric text box adjacent to it.  Click this button to move the selected nodes or elements in the specified direction, by the negative of the amount specified in the numeric text box.

ManualFix_MovePositive

Move in Positive Direction: This button works in conjunction with the value entered in the numeric text box adjacent to it.  Click this button to move the selected nodes or elements in the specified direction, by the amount specified in the numeric text box.