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ABAQUS Element Connectivity

Hi, 

I am trying to mesh the hollow sphere attachged using structured BRICK-8 elements. It turns out in order to have a structured mesh, I have to have 2 partitions such that four quadrants be generated.

What I only need from ABAQUS is the element connectivity. I do not need to solve any problem.

The issue I am facing is that each quadrant connectivity nodes' order is different. e.g. for a simple one element case with coordinates (-1,-1,-1)-(1,-1,-1)-..-(-1,1,1) you expect you number the elements in the datum plane with negative z-axis starting 1 to 4. Then you sweep the positive z-axis plane and and number them 5-8. Now if you have any other elements in the domain, the starting node in the connectivity should always be consistent by this order 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 however for two quadrants I have  1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 and for the other two I have 3-4-1-2-7-8-5-6. I think this problem is due to the partitions and is inevitable.

Please let me know if you know the answer.

 

Cheers,

Reza

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Frank Richter's picture

Hello

the code below will generate a file listing (in my example)

({'connectivity': (4980, 4981, 4982, 4983), 'instanceName': None, 'label': 1, 'type': C3D4}),4980

for all elements.
The 4 numbers are the nodes forming the element identified after 'label'
I do not recall what the last number stands for, it presumably repeats the first node number

Important: node numbers are shifted by one ! A node number 0 exists.
Check the output for a few elements by picking
ABAQUS/CAE : Tools-->Query-->Element

Good luck

Frank

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import part

file = open('C:/Simulations/Shallow Notch/SN08/SN08-elements.txt','w+') # path and filename you want to generate

elemArr = mdb.models['Model-1'].parts['UFTE_SN_ohne_Gewinde'].elements # pick the part you want to analyse
len(elemArr)
# print elemArr
print len(elemArr)
#a = mdb.models['Model-1'].parts['Model-1']
#print a
#allNodes = a.nodes
#print allNodes
#rootAssembly
#elemente = a.elements[1]
# for e in elemArr:
  # print e.getNodes()
  # print e,' : ', e.connectivity
 
for e in elemArr:
    file.write('%s,%g\n' % (e, e.connectivity[0]))

file.close()

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