Virtual Parts are structures created without a geometric support. They represent bodies for which no geometry model is available, but which play a role in the structural analysis of single part or assembly systems.
Virtual Parts are used to transmit action at a distance. Therefore they can be thought of as rigid bodies, except for the case where a lumped flexibility is explicitly introduced by the means of a spring element.
Do not use Virtual Parts to simulate connections.
To simulate connections, use Analysis Connections
of the Generative Structural Analysis (GAS) product.
- Create Rigid Virtual Parts
- Generate a stiff transmission rigid virtual part.
- Create Smooth Virtual Parts
- Generate a soft transmission rigid virtual part.
- Create Contact Virtual Parts
- Generate a contact transmission rigid virtual part.
- Create Rigid Spring Virtual Parts
- Generate a stiff transmission elastic spring virtual part.
- Create Smooth Spring Virtual Parts
- Generate a soft transmission elastic spring virtual part.
- Create Periodicity Conditions
- Simulate periodicity conditions by linking together the degrees of freedom of two faces that undergo transformation.