Dear RM 447 , what I did is to read the inp.file from abaqus in matlab. i give an example to read the inp file
fdat=fopen('gsinvrt.inp','r');
fout=fopen('cut3.inp','w');
%aca
nod=96373;
tline = fgetl(fdat);
pos=strfind(tline,'*Node');
while length(pos)==0
tline = fgetl(fdat)...