Product: Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: You can now specify settings for position tolerance and for adjustment of the initial position of the slave surface when you define cyclic symmetry in an Abaqus/CAE model.
Description: Abaqus/CAE now enables you to specify the following additional settings when you define a cyclic symmetry interaction:
The position tolerance, which defines the distance within which Abaqus will tie nodes on the slave surface to the master surface.
The ability to prevent Abaqus from moving all tied nodes on the slave surface onto the master surface. By default, this option is toggled on, and all tied nodes are moved in the initial configuration without applying strains to the model.
Interaction module: InteractionCreate: Cyclic symmetry (Standard): choose surfaces and points of symmetry: Position Tolerance options and Adjust slave surface initial position