Hi John,

Should I consider "add_extra_ghost_elem"?
Then I add "row_constraints" between the DOFs I need to tie together and
this element.
Does that make sense?
If so, what element should I add? I just need a single DOF to tie many DOFs
together.

thanks,
Renato

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:07 PM Renato Poli <rebp...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:03 PM Renato Poli <rebp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Do you see a better way to do?
>> I can see that Abaqus uses an extra node to tie all dofs together.
>> I need the DOFs to be identical.
>> That means eliminating lines in the matrix so that the displacements are
>> identical to each other.
>>
>> Renato
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 5:53 PM John Peterson <jwpeter...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 2:43 PM Renato Poli <rebp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Just refreshing this one, because I am sort of stuck in inserting a
>>>> "rigid"
>>>> BCs.
>>>> It seems simple, but I cannot make it work.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> From your error message, it sounds like you are introducing a coupling
>>> (through the constraint) between two dofs which would otherwise not be
>>> coupled, and this causes a new nonzero to be inserted into the system
>>> matrix after preallocation. You may be able to work around this issue by
>>> augmenting the sparsity pattern using a GhostingFunctor, similar to what is
>>> done in miscellaneous/miscellaneous_ex9/augment_sparsity_on_interface.h.
>>>
>>> --
>>> John
>>>
>>>

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