Hi, I am trying to connect springs to all the nodes on a surface using twopointspringdashpot using python scripting in abaqus, but the problem is that I need to define separate node sets for all the nodes on that surface. i am trying to use mymodel.Set(name=loppsetname, nodes=mdb.models['name'].rootAssembly.sets['name'].nodes[i]) but it does not work because the node is of the type meshnode and requests for a tuple instead. how can i access all the nodes on a surface separately as tuples?
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You can store nodal label in an array using the following line of Python codes:
nodeSet = odb.rootAssembly.instances['PART-NAME'].nodeSets['NODESET']
arrayNode = [] #declare an array to store nodal label
for node in nodeSet:
arrayNode.append(node.label)
Then, you can write a loop to connect as many springs as you want to each node.
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