Hello everyone. I have to export the coordinates of the points in my model (a wire) at the final configuration on the xy plan. i thougth that the only way to achieve it is creating a path of the nodes of the wire at the initial configuration and then create a xy output with the final position of the nodes, but i can't understand how to create a path of the all elements. do you have any suggestion?
P.s. nodes 1 and 2 are the first and the extremes and there are 1500 elements.
Hi,
You have to specify the node numbers range in the tab as you have red circled in the figure.
In your case, you have total 1500 1D elements. If your element is linear then the total number of nodes will be 1501.
They probably will have node number range 1:1501.
So enter this range. If the range is wrong then ABAQUS will give you warning that these nodes do not exist.
If you want to check the node lables in prior then follow:
Mesh module/Query and click Point/node. ABAQUS will display the node lables.
BR
Hi Israr ud Din and thank you for the answer! unfortunately i have already tried to use that range, but it doesn't work. Could it be for the different numeration of the nodes? it's not perfectly ordered from 1 to 1501, but i have a different numeration!
Probably, you have re-meshed, deleted, etc. What is your numbering scheme?
If your numbering is not in the sequence then you can also enter in blocks: say from 1: 30, then from 25:100 and so on....identify different blocks.
You can add as many rows as you want by right click the node label range.
If some has irregular numbering then you have click that individually.
By the way, there shall be a box selection option so that with mouse we can select all the nodes in the model in one-go. But, I think there is not.
Israr ud Din i meshed in that way because I did a lot of simulation changing only the length of the wire, so I needed fixed nodes for the constrained point! My meshing scheme is 2 4 5 ... 750 3 751 ... 1501 3
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