Restraints

Create a Restraint Set

Insert a restraint set under a frequency analysis case and a preprocessing analysis case.

Create Clamps

Fix all degrees of freedom on a geometry selection.

Technological Restraints

Create Surface Sliders

Generate surface constraint joins, which allow points of a surface to slide along a coinciding rigid surface (fixes the translation degree of freedom for a surface in the direction of the local normal).

Create Ball Joins

Generate spherical joins (balls), which allow a rigid body to rotate about a given point (fixes all translation degrees of freedom of a point).

Create Sliders

Generate prismatic joins (sliders), which allow a rigid body to translate along a given axis (fixes all degrees of freedom of a point, except for one translation).

Create Pivots

Generate conical joins (hinges), which allow a rigid body to rotate around a given axis (fixes all degrees of freedom of a point, except for one rotation).

Create Sliding Pivots

Generate cylindrical joins (actuators) which allow a rigid body to translate about  and rotate around a given axis (fixes all degrees of freedom of a point, except for one translation and one rotation).

Generic Restraints

Create User-defined Restraints

Fix any combination of degrees of freedom on a geometry selection.

Create Iso-static Restraints

Generate statically determinate supports on a part.