A Solid Contact generates a force between one solid (or available surface for a solid contact) and the other solid (or available surface for a solid contact).
•Two solid geometries must belong to two different bodies. And user also uses an available surface instead of solid geometry. But when the user uses a surface instead of solid geometry, the contacted volume must be enclosed during the whole solving time as shown Figure 1.
Figure 1 Definition of an available surface for a Solid Contact
•The contact force can be not only linear or exponential but also nonlinear spline characteristics to the contact penetration and its velocity.
•The base solid (or available surface) or action solid (or available surface) can be approximated as multi triangular patches with the Patch option as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2 Approximated action and base contact solids
Figure 3 Solid icon of the Contact group in the Professional tab