contact elements, and rigid links in OpenSees Visual

[semon]

Hi Everyone,

I have used contact elements for modeling abutment-deck interaction and interaction of adjacent decks in expansion joint in a bridge model. To be able to use and support contact element, I used rigid links of bridge deck width size. And I also used Zerolength element for modeling the abutment and foundation. When I run this model, Why cannot I see the elements in the bridge model in visual (screen) that is available in OpenSees?

Please help me?

Thank you

[fmk]

either you have the command wrong and the elements are rendered outside the view window or because the element writer failed to implement the displaySelf method when he wrote the element or a combination of the two!