I have a beam that I was simulating in ABAQUS/CAE.I came across an interesting phenomenon. It worked when I linked the reference point and applied the boundary conditions to it, which is clear, but it did not work when I applied the boundary conditions to the geometric region and left the coupling alone (to get the reaction force only). Due to several constraints, I'd want to obtain the reaction force as a single curve rather than the tiresome task of adding all the reference nodes and plotting it. It's a quarter-symmetrical model, and coupling isn't an option for me when it comes to applying boundary constraints. I'd want to take a single curve of reaction force from the output and use it in a Manticarlo simulation with a data matching component. To conclude, providing boundary conditions to the partition below the face does not help in the post-processing of a single response force curve, but activating the coupling automatically deactivates the boundary conditions.