connecting multiple independent structures

- January 26, 2022 at 4:11 pm
  
  jaevin10
  Subscriber
  
  Good Day,
  I'm working on a project concerning offshore solar panels. The size of the whole project is quite large (100x70m) so I'm planning to model only the floaters. Is there any way to connect the floaters rigidly to one another (floater to floater)?
- January 27, 2022 at 9:34 am
  
  jaevin10
  Subscriber
  
  Similar connectivity on this figure attached, I want all floaters connected as one structure.
  On a side note, I am planning to attach mooring cables so I can find the reactions required to design anchor piles. Is there any other way to determine the reaction forces of the structure?
- January 28, 2022 at 12:16 am
  
  RK
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hello,
  As Ansys employees, we will not be able to download files. Can you please insert an image instead? What is the main goal of your simulation?
- January 28, 2022 at 9:39 pm
  
  jaevin10
  Subscriber
  
  My main goal would be to consider the floaters (gray cylinders) to act as one structure without modeling any beam elements to connect it since I'm trying to keep the number of mesh elements as minimum as possible.
  Thanks for the response there was already a response on a different thread.

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