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Constraining a plane in NX Nastran 6.0

Thread starter anmorgan
Start date Nov 16, 2009

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Nov 16, 2009

anmorgan

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I am trying to constrain the plane of a face. For example: I have a square tube crossbeam and I want to apply a load on the cross sectional face, but I don't want the face to go out of its plan. I tried an enforced directional constraint, but I can't do more than one direction for that plane, or at least its not allowing me to.

Which constraint can I use to allow a face do not translate in the x-z plane but can in the x-y plane. thanks