Creating an assembly composed of a hinge held together by a pin

Figure 1. Model used in the hinge tutorial.

The tutorial consists of the following sections:

• Creating the first hinge piece

• Assigning section properties to the hinge part

• Creating and modifying a second hinge piece

• Creating the pin

• Assembling the model

• Defining analysis steps

• Creating surfaces to use in contact interactions

• Defining contact between regions of the model

• Applying boundary conditions and loads to the assembly

• Meshing the assembly

• Creating and submitting a job

• Viewing the results of your analysis