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partitioning or selecting faces in ABAQUS using scripting techniques

partitioning or selecting faces in ABAQUS using scripting techniques

partitioning or selecting faces in ABAQUS using scripting techniques

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Hi everyone,

I am trying to automate the process of creating models in ABAQUS using pure python scripting techniques. Even though I found a few resources on the web for specific but relatively easy geometry examples, I could not get how to use *faces.findAt to choose the faces I would like to partition. The sequence of points etc. are not very clear to me.

This is an example piece of code for the extruded C-Channel I am trying to partition using a datum plane I defined earlier. I don't have a problem with defining those datum planes. It's the choice of faces. I couldn't get it clearly what points or sequence of faces I should indicate to select the proper faces that will be partitioned. I got this using session.journalOptions.setValues(recoverGeometry=COORDINATE):

mdb.models['W2_527h_8'].parts['channel'].PartitionFaceByDatumPlane(datumPlane=

mdb.models['W2_527h_8'].parts['channel'].datums[3], faces=

mdb.models['W2_527h_8'].parts['channel'].faces.findAt(((38.667267, 193.294,

1625.599935), (0.0, -1.0, 0.0)), ((0.0, 128.862671, 1625.599935), (1.0,

0.0, 0.0)), ((19.333633, 0.0, 1625.599935), (0.0, 1.0, 0.0)), ))

I would be glad if anybody could explain any further. Thank you in advance.

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