Pardon me but I am confused: whether you want abaqus to report the displacements for some specific nodes or you want abaqus to force the specified displacements for some nodes? The later one can be achieved through boundary conditions. For the former, you may report the displacements for a set of nodes at the end of frames. Please correct me if I misinterpreted your query.
Hi asim, Thank you for the help. I want to specify displacements for some nodes. Would you please tell me how to do this using the abaqus scripts? For example, I have a set of nodes, whose displacements are listed in a text file. I want to use a script to read the file, and then impose the displacements to the nodes.
Using python script you may prepare a Region object from the node list contained in a text file and then use this region object to define the boundary conditions through python command setValues, values being read from text file.
Input or output
Pardon me but I am confused: whether you want abaqus to report the displacements for some specific nodes or you want abaqus to force the specified displacements for some nodes? The later one can be achieved through boundary conditions. For the former, you may report the displacements for a set of nodes at the end of frames. Please correct me if I misinterpreted your query.
regards
asim
Hi asim, Thank you for the
Hi asim, Thank you for the help. I want to specify displacements for some nodes. Would you please tell me how to do this using the abaqus scripts? For example, I have a set of nodes, whose displacements are listed in a text file. I want to use a script to read the file, and then impose the displacements to the nodes.
Region object
Using python script you may prepare a Region object from the node list contained in a text file and then use this region object to define the boundary conditions through python command setValues, values being read from text file.
regards
asim
P.S. Refer to abaqus 6.9.1 scripting reference manual section 8.15 & 41.3