Hi,
I modeled a chimney in Abaqus/CAE software. The chimney is modeled as a cylindrical solid of steel and is created according to the geometric properties using a 20-node quadratic brick element type (C3D20R). In a preprocessor such as Abaqus/CAE, when geometry meshes, the preprocessor automatically generates the nodes and elements needed for analysis. I need outer nodes' labels of the chimney along with its height for creating a mode shape of it. How can I do this automatically with Abaqus Python scripting?