I am trying to attach shell elements with a solid meshed in tet elements using rutman fasteners, however, the fastener maker tool does not seem to work with this type of elements.
I assume you are using the version of the fastener builder tool in the Patran Utility that supports shell and solid elements. this tool does support solids that are tet elements. however, there must be a row of nodes through the thickness of the solid at the fastener location. this is sometimes difficult to achieve with a tetmesh. you effectively have to split the solid at the fastener location so that you will get a row of nodes along the fastener shank.
I assume you are using the version of the fastener builder tool in the Patran Utility that supports shell and solid elements. this tool does support solids that are tet elements. however, there must be a row of nodes through the thickness of the solid at the fastener location. this is sometimes difficult to achieve with a tetmesh. you effectively have to split the solid at the fastener location so that you will get a row of nodes along the fastener shank.
