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Plotting nodal forces (NFORC) of surface as vector plot

Plotting nodal forces (NFORC) of surface as vector plot

Plotting nodal forces (NFORC) of surface as vector plot

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Dear Forum,

I am trying to generate a vector plot (using "plot symbols on deformed shape") of my 3d structure, of the forces felt by the surface nodes. The problem is that abaqus (v6-7-1) reports the force as nodal SCALARS, but nautually will only create vector plots of nodal VECTORS.

What I have been doing so far is:

1.Define the surface as a geometry set

2. Meshing the structure- thus producing a node set with above surface set

3. Request NFORC for the above nodeset as field output (outputs x,y,z) and solve model

4. create report of the NFORC values in x,y,z (3 scalar values) using the automated abaqus.rpt file, and a little manual editing to remove unwanted text

5. read back in the three scalar values (using Tools> Create Data) as a vector in 3D, and create the vector plot


The problem i have is with step 5, how do i read in these values vectors, or am i doing something wrong?

Or does anyone have any other trick that might let me do what i want to do?

Furthermore, I know there is an option in "Operate on XY Data" to convert three single scalars into a single vector using the "vectorMagnitude(X,X,X)" but my node set has thousands of nodes, and i dont want to do that for every node!


Thanks very much for any suggestions.

 

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