Attached is more fodder from my latest run..
Meshing - The good news is that my top assy will mesh reliably w/o crashing (110k elements). I do have Autogems for refinements on radii, thru holes & exclude singularities.
I had initially setup as default contact w/0.030" sep. distance, uncheck 'planar only' & checked split surfs/gen mesh.
Now is setup as default contact w/0.000" sep. distance, uncheck planar. uncheck split surfs.
Put in individual contact interfaces, uncheck split surfs...this 'split' business really driving me crazy.
The bad news is that I still have many problems with nearly all my simulated fasteners...
"Primary 1 to 3" - 30 kip preload
"Secondary 1 to 3" - 12 kip
"Buffer 1 to 4" - 24 kip
"tele 1-12" - 8 kip
"cylinder 1-4" - 24 kip
you can see that I'm getting 'odd' listings in the rpt file....
Q: I'm not so sure that the thru hole bores MUST be the same size when installing sim fasteners?
Looks like my 'tele' & 'Buffer' fasteners are the only ones even close.
more run(s) today...
Thanks for your attention and review
Sean