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Ansys 14.5 Rivets

Thread starter Mechengle
Start date Feb 5, 2015

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Feb 5, 2015

Mechengle

Mechanical

Hi everyone

I have 2 thin plates (0.063"x2) that are fastened together with 50 csk rivets.
I started off with creating the rivets as solid models, but I was wondering if anyone knew
a alternative method to create rivets, that are not solid models in Ansys 14.5 Workbench?

I am new to Ansys btw.