Paris,

I can plot the contact normals and they were generated correctly. I have no
evidence that anything is wrong with the contact elements, its just
unnerving to get a warning message that I don’t know the consequences of.
Unfortunately when I archive my models I delete the .err files so I have no
idea how long they have been appearing. For all I know they have always
been there. I will try creating the contacts with out the wizard and see
what happens.

Thanks,

Mike
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Mike Sobol 770 Warren Rd
Senior Engineer Ithaca, NY 14850
Ithaca Technical Center 607-266-2131 ph
BorgWarner Morse TEC 607-257-5033 fx

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 -----Original Message-----
From: PAltidis_at_ats.bwauto.com [mailto:PAltidis_at_ats.bwauto.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:16 PM
To: xansys_at_xansys.org
Subject: RE: [Xansys] Warnings in contact wizzard

Mike,
Can you plot the contact elements with normals to see if they were generated
correctly over the areas you specified ?
I typically do this step with APDL to have more control over it (eventually,
you will need to tweak the RCs anyway - so why not define everything from
the get go). I still go with the defaults in the contact def. step, as
ANSYS makes some adjustments and then try to make changes.
Regards from Chicago,

Paris Altidis
Principal Engineer
Borg Warner - Transmission Systems
708-547-2719

-----Original Message-----
From: Sobol, Mike (Morse TEC Ithaca) [mailto:msobol_at_morse.bwauto.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:03 AM
To: Xansys (E-mail)
Subject: [Xansys] Warnings in contact wizzard

All,

I am using the contact wizard to create contact between two lines in a 2D
model. The contacts generate as expected and the model will solve, but a
look into the .err file shows four warnings about *get commands. Through
some digging I found the commands are generated by the contact wizard.

*** WARNING *** SUPPRESSED MESSAGE CP= 39.297 TIME= 10:55:27
 Some entities requested in the *VGET were undefined.

I understand what the message is saying, but I am concerned that the warning
is there at all. If the items ansys is trying to get are not there I am
concerned that the contact elements have not been generated as intended. I
looked though the log file and the contact wizard generates 4 *vget commands
when creating this contact set and they all produce the above warning. A
quick check of the error files from similar models shows the same warnings.
I had not noticed them before. I suspect these warnings can be ignored, but
I would like to know more about them before I do. I have a feeling that
this one of the reasons that one of the first commands the contact wizard
issues is /nerr,0.

Regards,

Mike
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Mike Sobol 770 Warren Rd
Senior Engineer Ithaca, NY
14850
Ithaca Technical Center 607-266-2131 ph
BorgWarner Morse TEC 607-257-5033 fx

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