Has anyone figured out how to restrain a surface of a part to have equal deflection in a single direction only? In other words i need a surface to translate in all three directions but the surface must remain parallel to its initial plane. See picture below.
I need the surface where the force is applied to equally deflect in the vertical direction. In the image below you can see the undesired deflection:
No you would apply a load. Put a sketch point In the middle of the face . Use it to put a coordinate system with and axis vertical, in the direction of the load. Add a remote load from under the remote load selection user loads. Pick the displacement rigid connection option, pick th face, pick the coordinate system, leave all the location option at 0. You will have 6 degrees of freedom to specify, set all the rotations to zero, leave the translations free. The add you load and run. Good luck. I have trick or treaters at the door.