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Hi, Notepad++ is my text editor of choice for many projects, but for ABAQUS input files, it does not do the code folding, as discussed in the following thread: thread799-324132 Since the thread is closed now, I put my solution here. For the moment, I use the Sc1 from Scintilla project (FYI...

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Dear all, I want to model crack closure in Abaqus 6.12-3 when the crack is modeled with XFEM. So, I specified the contact properties for the crack faces (tangential dir.:frictionless, normal dir.:"hard" contact) and used the direct method as the contact constraint enforcement method. However...