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      <div class="title_refCategory">Mass Properties</div>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option determines whether or not mass properties of mechanism objects should be written to the analysis file. When this check box is turned on, user-defined mass properties are written. When there are no user-defined mass properties and solids are associated to the links, the system calculates the mass properties.</p>
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                  <p class="defObject">Type:</p>
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                  <p class="defObject">Default Name:</p>
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                  <p class="defObject">Valid Options:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">[No (1), Yes (2)]</p>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">Mass properties of motion links are very important for the dynamic behavior of a mechanism. Although it's somewhat time-consuming to calculate the automatic parasolid mass properties for solid bodies, especially if these have many features, this calculation has to be performed only one time and the calculated values will be stored with the mechanism link and will only be recalculated if link geometry has changed.</p>
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      <div class="title_refCategory">Motion Contact Method</div>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option specifies the method used in the 3D contact algorithm.</p>
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                  <p class="defObject">Default Name:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">CAE_DefaultMotionContactMethod</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">[Faceted Contact (FacetedContact), Precise Contact (PreciseContact)]</p>
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      <div class="title_refCategory">Faceted Contact Algorithm Tolerance</div>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option specifies the tolerance for the faceted contact algorithm. The value 1 corresponds to a coarse tessellation for faster solves and the value 100 corresponds to a finer tessellation for more accurate solves.</p>
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                  <p class="defObject">Default Name:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">CAE_DefaultMotionFacetContactTolerance</p>
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                        &gt;=1
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option specifies the time period over which the model will be analyzed.</p>
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                  <p class="defObject">Default Name:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">CAE_DefaultMotionAnalysisTime</p>
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                        &gt;=0.0
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option specifies the number of steps the model will be analyzed.</p>
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                        &gt;=0
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