{"id":1216,"date":"2013-02-20T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Femap-Tips-amp-Tricks-Coincident-Node-Move-Only-Option\/ba-p\/335068"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:06:05","slug":"femap-tips-tricks-coincident-node-move-only-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/femap-tips-tricks-coincident-node-move-only-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Femap Tips &#038; Tricks: Coincident Node Move Only Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Sometimes you may need to set up a model to have a set of coincident nodes which can be connected together using spring or gap elements. To help prepare such a model, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/femap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A> includes a method of moving nodes to be coincident within a tolerance. See how you can use Femap\u2019s Move Only, No Merge option of the Check Coincident Node capability to achieve this.<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/demos\/index.shtml#lightview%26uri=tcm:1023-206960%26title=Femap%20Tips%20and%20Tricks%20-%20Coincident%20Node%20Move%20Only%26docType=.flv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14435\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2013\/02\/Tip20_CoincidentNodeMoveOnly-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Femap Coincident Node Move Only Option\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>Alastair<BR \/><BR \/>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/femap.software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap on facebook<\/A> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=2270365&amp;trk=hb_side_g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap group on LInkedin<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you may need to set up a model to have a set of coincident nodes which can be connected together using spring or gap elements. To help prepare such a model, Femap includes a method of movin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-femap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}