February 1, 2023 at 11:55 am
Erik Kostson
Ansys Employee

 

 

 

Hi Calum

 

Please use symmetry on the face of the needle and block that are on the XY plane, and set sym. normal to Z on those faces (we basically need to restrain the Z movemenet on the nodes of that plane).

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One can also use just a displacement boundary condition there and fix Z instead (that is what the symmetry will do anyway). 

Thank you and all the best

Erik