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Within Apex, Edit Contacts Utility appears not to be working?

elijah.d.lamppin.civ
elijah.d.lamppin.civ over 5 years ago
Referring to the attached photo of my .bdf, it looks like the 2 contacts (denoted with XXXXX_T) don't have an associated BCBDPRP along with a friction coefficient. I made these independent ties, then followed the video guide on using the Edit Contact utility to switch them to touching and input a friction. I know it does something since it renames the ties with _G or _T, but looking through the .bdf it looks like they are all still glued. Am I misunderstanding the .bdf?
 
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    Do you know how to remove/clear the utilities before re-adding them? I swapped out the folders but still receive the same error. I'm wondering if they loaded properly.
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