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Contacts Selection dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

Name
Name Sets the name of the selection.
Label Sets a unique integer for the selection.
Description Sets a description for the selection.This description appears only on this dialog box.
Contacts Selection
Contact Selection Lets you select the contact objects that are part of the Fluid Pressure Penetration object you define. In Structural analyses, you can select Surface-to-Surface Contact or Nodes-to-Surface contacts.In Axisymmetric and Other 2D Structural analyses, you select Edge-to-Edge Contact or Nodes-to-Edge contacts.You can search for existing contact by name or label.Click Options to search and filter regions. The following options are available.FindLets you search for an object by entering the full name of the object.For example, to find a region named ABC_region, type ABC_region in the search box and press Enter or click Find . If the object is found, it will be selected automatically.Filter by NameLets you filter the list by the names of the objects. This filter supports wildcards. The default wildcard of * displays all entries in the list.For example, to filter the list to display every object with a name starting with the letter "a," enter a* as the filter string.
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Contacts Selection dialog box (Simcenter Samcef), Simcenter 3D 2021.1 Series

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