4 Modeling
4. Modeling
This chapter discusses features related to creating your model, such as node and element definition in ABAQUS/Standard or ABAQUS/Explicit and part and assembly definition in ABAQUS/CAE. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:
“Introducing dependent part instances,” Section 4.1
“Filleting and chamfering shell edges,” Section 4.2
“Creating patterns of instances,” Section 4.3
“Contact constraint moved,” Section 4.4
“Translating and rotating part instances with existing constraints applied,” Section 4.5
“Regeneration of position constraints,” Section 4.6
“Angle query,” Section 4.7
“Sketcher tools and enhancements,” Section 4.8
“Partitioning a cell with a sketch,” Section 4.9
“ABAQUS/CAE colors different sides of a shell surface,” Section 4.10
“Using selection groups during selection procedures,” Section 4.11
“Merging groups of sets or surfaces,” Section 4.12
“Defining interior cross-section surfaces,” Section 4.13
“Defining matrices,” Section 4.14
“Defining a nonstructural mass,” Section 4.15
