{"id":1434,"date":"2012-05-18T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Femap-How-To-Video-Series-Creating-Constraint-Equations\/ba-p\/334893"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:08:20","slug":"femap-how-to-video-series-creating-constraint-equations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/femap-how-to-video-series-creating-constraint-equations\/","title":{"rendered":"Femap \u201cHow To\u201d Video Series: Creating Constraint Equations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>This is the first in a new series of \u201cHow To\u201d videos that demonstrate some of the more advanced <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/plm\/fea.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">FEA modeling<\/A> functionality accessible through <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A>.<BR \/><BR \/>In this video we\u2019ll see how to use Femap to set up a constraint equation that relates nodal degrees of freedom of a finite element model. Constraint equations can be used to create rigid connections between nodes, or calculate some useful quantity that is a function of nodal displacements.<BR \/><BR \/><\/P><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:300px;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/demos\/index.shtml#lightview%26uri=tcm:1023-186636%26title=How%20To%3A%20Constraint%20Equations%26docType=.flv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"size-medium wp-image-9982\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/05\/HowTo_ConstraintEquation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"How to set up constraint equations video\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">How to set up constraint equations<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>Alastair<BR \/><BR \/>Follow <A href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/femap.software\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap on facebook<\/A> and the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=2270365&amp;trk=hb_side_g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap group on LInkedin<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first in a new series of \u201cHow To\u201d videos that demonstrate some of the more advanced FEA modeling functionality accessible through Femap.    In this video we\u2019ll see how to use Femap to set&#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":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","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=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}