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Fasteners

Fasteners

Fasteners

(OP)
Please can some one help. I am trying to use the fasteners (screws) in Pro/Mechanica Wildfire 2.0 to attach two parts together. I assembled the model in Pro/E using mate/aligh etc, then I transferred to Mechanica and put the screws in etc but when I run the design study I just get a fatal error saying "Mechanica could not generate elements for all of the entities" - the problem is that I have no idea how to rectify this.
Any clues as to what to do, or where I can find tutorials (I have got the PTC knowledge base one but that isn't a lot of help) on how to use fasteners in Mechanica would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Parsnip

RE: Fasteners

Before running the analysis, try the AUTOGEN to mesh the geometry and it give you some idea where create the meshing problem.  

RE: Fasteners

Have you checked the conectivity in your asm?, as well try to modify the aspect ratio and angles in your auto-gem, that can help you, probably your defauld is not produccing a god mesh and that is way you get this message.
regards.

RE: Fasteners

I don't think it is the aspect ratio problem, since in auto-gem, if they find the required ratio is small, they will change the default value.

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