Connecting components with gluing

Estimated time to complete: 15–25 minutes

In this tutorial, you will create connections between components of a golf club assembly.

1: Setup

  1. On your desktop or the appropriate network drive, create a folder named glue.

  2. Click the link below:

    Download the part

  3. Extract the part file to your glue folder.

  4. Start Simcenter 3D or NX.

  5. Open Golf_Club_Assem_sim1.sim.

2: Reset dialog box memory

The options you select in dialog boxes are preserved for the next time you open the same dialog box within a given session. Restore the default settings to ensure that the dialog boxes are in the expected initial state for each step of the activity.

File

Preferences→User Interface

  • Options

  •   Reset Dialog Memory

  • OK

     
3: Glue the shaft and grip together

Use Surface-to-Surface Gluing to glue the top of the shaft to the inside of the grip. The glue elements you create are stiff springs that connect and constrain the surfaces. The gluing resolves the degree-of-freedom mismatch between the shell and solid elements. In Simcenter Nastran, shell elements have six degrees of freedom, while solid elements have three.

You define surface-to-surface gluing regions by creating face pairs. The Manual pairing method lets you create the face pairs manually by selecting the source and target regions. To make it easier to select these regions, you will turn off the display of some of your meshes and polygon bodies.

  Simulation Navigator

  •   Golf_Club_Assem_fem1.fem→2D Collectors

  •   Shaft steel (hide)

 

 Surface-to-Surface Gluing (Loads and Conditions group→ Simulation Object Type list)

  • Type

    Manual

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  •   Create Region (Source Region)

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  • OK

      Region dialog box

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  •   Create Region (Target Region)

  • Leave the Region dialog box open.

 

  Simulation Navigator

  •     Polygon Geometry

  •     Shaft (1) (hide)

  •   3D Collectors

  •   Grip (hide)

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  • OK

      both dialog boxes
4: Glue the shaft and ferrule together

  Simulation Navigator

  •   Shaft (1) (show, under Polygon Geometry)

  •   Ferrule (hide, under 3D Collectors)

 

  Surface-to-Surface Gluing (Loads and Conditions group→ Simulation Object Type list)

  • Type

    Manual

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  • Create Region (Source Region)

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  • OK

      Region dialog box

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  •   Create Region (Target Region)

  • Leave the Region dialog box open.

 

  Simulation Navigator

  •   Shaft (1) (hide, under Polygon Geometry)

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  • OK

      both dialog boxes
5: Glue the shaft and club head together

  Simulation Navigator

  •   Ferrule (3) (hide, under Polygon Geometry)

  •   Simulation Object Container

  •   Face Gluing(2) (hide)

 

 Surface-to-Surface Gluing (Loads and Conditions group→ Simulation Object Type list)

  • Type

    Manual

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  • Source Region

    Region3

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  • Create Region (Target Region)

  • Leave the Region dialog box open.

 

  Simulation Navigator

  •   Head steel (hide, under 3D Collectors)

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  • OK

      both dialog boxes

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6: Redisplay geometry, meshes, and glue

Redisplay the polygon geometry, meshes, and glue conditions that were turned off in previous steps

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  Save

File

  • Close→All Parts