Hi, I'm modeling a simple plate(midsurface) with 4 bolt holes near the corners. how can I create a "mesh point" (nastran term, thats where I come from), that forces a node at that precise center of the hole in the geometry, so that I can just represent the bolted hole with a grounded spring at that node, rather than discretely modeling the hole?


This is what i've done so far, I created a midsurface and then blended in the holes, I was going to delete the edge lines of the holes to make it a flat plate, but is it possible to have nodes appear at the center of those holes?