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This menu allows the user to require that the $x$ or $y$ displacements of all nodes in a nodegroup be identical. The $x$ or $y$ degree of freedom for all nodes in a nodegroup is replaced by a single master degree of freedom. The original degrees of freedom are said to be enslaved to the master.

The displacement of the slaves is the same as the displacement of the master. The displacement of the master is initially set to the average displacement of the slaves. If any of the slaves are fixed (see Section 3.22), so is the master. All forces applied to the slaves are applied to the master (see Section 3.27). Note that when querying the force on an enslaved degree of freedom with the Node Info Dashboard (Section 5.2.5) the force on the master is reported, which is the sum of the forces on all ($x$ or $y$) degrees of freedom in the group.

Menus Functions Variables
x    
y    
both    

The Submenus are:

x
A menu of the current nodegroups which enslaves the $x$ degree of freedom for the entire nodegroup.
y
A menu of the current nodegroups which enslaves the $y$ degree of freedom for the entire nodegroup.
both
A menu of the current nodegroups which enslaves both the $x$ and $y$ degrees of freedom for the entire nodegroup.

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