Fem constraint contact

[bernd]

I managed to break it

Fixed. Are you still able to break it? https://github.com/berndhahnebach/FreeC ... athonlinux

Another improvement. Added some nice popups.

I'm still able to break it. See https://github.com/berndhahnebach/FreeC ... cx.py#L152 But I do not know how to catch this.

[PrzemoF]

I think pushing whatever improvement you have will be better than what we have in the master right now.We might polish it later.

[bernd]

I think pushing whatever improvement you have will be better than what we have in the master right now.We might polish it later.

It has been pushed already.

[PrzemoF]

OK, Ithanks!

[bernd]

Improved, and made a new pull request https://github.com/berndhahnebach/FreeC ... ff=unified
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/297

[JV_3D]

Hello gals and guys

I just found this thread when realizing that I need something like this in my FEM analysis, or something similar; I need that the element in analysis do not penetrate itself, so my questions are: 1) It is possible to do it with 1 element, similar as the one shown in the 1st message but with 2 elements? Where is this option in the FEM workbench or it is an add-on? Or it is a plan and will be added in future FreeCAD versions?

Thank you in advance

EDIT:
OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6706 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-16
Hash: f86a4e411ff7848dea98d7242f43b7774bee8fa0
Python version: 2.7.8
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

[makkemal]

@JV_3D

It should work, face to face contact is implemented.
Post you model we can have a look

[bernd]

@JV_3D
It should work, face to face contact is implemented.
Post you model we can have a look

but in FreeCAD 0.17.xxxxx only.

He has:

Version: 0.16.6706 (Git)

@JV_3D:
It is recommended to use FreeCAD 0.17.xxxxx if you consider to work with FreeCADS FEM workbench. There have been hundreds of improvements and bugfixes in FEM.

Bernd

[makkemal]

@Bernd Thanks missed that yes 0.16 is far behind 0.17
Any indication when 0.17 will be released ?

[bernd]

Any indication when 0.17 will be released ?

No, not in the near future. There are still a lot of issues. The three big ones (Qt5, Py3, PDN) have still a lot of issues (PDN) or are not even fully merged into master (Py3)