Hi everyone

I have user-defined elements in Abaqus with active degrees of freedom like 1,2,8. It's like:

*User element, nodes=8, type=U1, properties=5

1,2

1,8

How can I give an initial condition to one DOF such as DOF8 to all these nodes? I tried to use:

*Initial Conditions, type=field

Allnodes, USER, 8, 1.0

But it didn't work.

Can anyone give me some advice on how to define this with abaqus keywords or user-subroutine?

Thanks.