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Abaqus UEL subroutine help
Greetings to all Imechanicans ! ,
I just started using the scripting interface in Abaqus, and i stumbled into a small issue, I have a sample input file which is a small model for crack simulation and its UEL subroutine, I know how to open the input file but I don't know how to open the UEL subroutine that goes with it, I get the following error :
The model "projGH" has been created.
AbaqusException: An input file containing User-defined elements and/or super elements cannot be imported by the input file reader. This occurred while creating deformable part PART-1. The part will not be created.
WARNING: Part instance PART-1-1 references an empty part. A new part named PART-1-1 will be created from the mesh data in part instance PART-1-1.
WARNING: Empty part instance PART-1-1. This occurred while processing part PART-1. Neither the original part nor the part instance PART-1-1 contain mesh data.
Warning: The node set "ALL" was not imported.
Warning: The element set "ALL" was not imported.
KeyError: 'PART-1-1' This occurred while getting a region for a boundary condition. The boundary condition will be ignored.
KeyError: 'PART-1-1' This occurred while getting a region for a boundary condition. The boundary condition will be ignored.
KeyError: 'PART-1-1' This occurred while getting a region for a boundary condition. The boundary condition will be ignored.
KeyError: 'PART-1-1' This occurred while getting a region for a boundary condition. The boundary condition will be ignored.
WARNING: Unknown assembly level node set ALL. This occurred while getting nodal region for a nodal output request.
WARNING: Part instance PART-1-1 does not exist. This occurred while getting the node set region for *MONITOR. The *MONITOR definition will be ignored.
WARNING: The following keywords/parameters are not yet supported by the input file reader:
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*UELPROPERTY
*USERELEMENT
The model "projGH" has been imported from an input file.
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My guess is that I am just opening the input file whithout linking it to the subroutine.
Could you guys please help me with some instructions on how to successfully run the subroutine along with the input file !! I use Abaqus version 6.7-1.
thank you very much in advance for your help.
Ghandi R
Some suggestions
I think, you should run your job under command mode, and the command line should be
abaqus job=<your job name>, user=<your user subroutine file name>, int
However, Abaqus Cae can't plot user defined elements for it doesn't know how to plot;). After the calculation is finished, you can open the .odb file, but you can only see those nodes (represented by cross as default), no elements shown anyway.
Not sure whether my answer meet your requirement. Hope it helpful to you!
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