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ABAQUS - NSET nodes plotting/printing

ABAQUS - NSET nodes plotting/printing

ABAQUS - NSET nodes plotting/printing

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Hello everyone!

I am struggling to find a way how to plot in the graphical interface, or how to print into a .dat/.rpt file an NSet or a Surf-XX in a form I can see the nodal numbers belonging to each meshed element in one line. For example for an NSet ContactSurface consisting of three hexagonal elements I would see something like this (I just made up the numbers to show the main idea):
1 2 3 4
2 4 5 6
5 6 7 8
In this way I would know for some next post-processing that the NSet ContactSurface consists of three closed rectangulars or squares 1-2-3-4, 2-4-5-6 and 5-6-7-8, instead of just having everything in one line and not knowing which nodes belong to which element on a surface. I think the .inp file and also .dat file using NODE PRINT show the nodes belonging to an NSet as follows (without any order to the elements, which is not what I need):
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8

Thank you for any ideas!

RE: ABAQUS - NSET nodes plotting/printing

I don't see the value for that. It wouldn't help me, if I know which 4-40 nodes belong to elements connected to a specific node.
With 100 nodes in the interested set it will be huge list of nodes. For what?

But anyway, if you want to have that... all informations are in the input file. Write a program or script and extract the desired data and write them into another file.

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