Mixing thin bodies and solid bodies contacts.

[briver05]

I'm trying to do a stress analysis on assembly with a mixture of thin bodies and solid bodies.  The problem is that when I create the automatic contacts they are created as either all thin body or all solid body contacts.  This of course causes the analysis to fail.  It appears that there is no way to make a thin body contact become a solid body contact or vice versa.  Any ideas?

I tried to run the entire thing as solid bodies but the I had to stop the analysis after 18 hours of continuous processing. (and a memory upgrade)

Thanks.

[briver05]

Also, what type of contact would you use between a thin body and a solid body?