Create a Surface Contact Mesh

1. Click (Surface Contact Mesh).

2. (Optional) Select Auto Create Contact Pairs, and enter the desired Capture Distance to specify the surface proximity value by which the overlapping faces can be detected.

3. (Optional) To more specifically define contact, use the Selection Steps instead of Auto Create. First, select the source face and then the target contact face.

4. Change other properties as desired.

5. Click Apply to build the surface contact mesh, and then click OK.

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