Defining a Tightness Restriction

You can define a tightness restriction to prevent the remaining structure from having holes and breakouts in the defined restriction area.

This task shows you how to:

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DVCON_TOPO

Define a Tightness Restriction in Tosca ANSA® environment

  1. To define the tightness restriction, choose DV_CONSTRAINTS and select New > DEMOLD_CONTROL

  2. In the appeared DEMOLD_CONTROL dialog, set MID_PLANE field to AUTO_TIGHT as shown in the following figure:



  3. If needed, define new groups for the fields EL_GROUP and CHECK_GROUP.

  4. To define a pull direction different from the directions of the global coordinate system axes, define a new coordinate system.

Define a Tightness Restriction in Tosca Structure.gui

  1. Choose Command > DVCON_TOPO in Tosca Structure.pre.

  2. Define the restriction as shown in the following figure: