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thanks though i'd like to access the model database, not the odb, because the node connectivity is in the model database, and i'd like to access it through a python script and not from within the CAE. could you help me with that?

excuse me bfillery i ended up not needing to access mdb because i chose another way to do what i needed to do when i asked that question. but now i'd actually like to open my mdb and access some stuff in there. could you kindly explain to me how to make what you suggested work? you wrote...

New question After I have processed my output with python and rewritten a new input file simply changing the coordinates of the nodes belonging to a certain surface of my model, I want to run a new simulation. So far everything is kind of ok, but, since I don't know how much the nodes belonging...

i'm using 6.6... so i can't use your suggestion... can you or anybody else help me please? it is becoming a serious problem thank you all

thanks Noirom84 i think that could be what i was looking for if it wasn't that i think (i'm not sure, gotta check tomorrow at work) i'm using 6.6... do you have any other suggestion if that's the case?

hi everybody if i import an inp file in my CAE using import model i seem to not be able to calculate the volume of an instance because i don't have geometry (something like that). now, since i need to calculate the volume of my new object created by modifying the input file, how can i do that...

thank you very much Guru you're very kind

great! thanks a lot. you're cool bfillery. i appreciated your help very much

guys if i have defined a set in my model, how do i access the node labels of the nodes belonging to that set through a python script when i access the odb file?

could you bfillery or anybody else be so kind to explain to me how to access the labels of the nodes belonging to a specific set? i seem to not be able to. i'm still talking about python script thanks a lot!!!

thanks bfillery that could be a good idea. i'm just wondering where i could find the info on the connectivity (i mean, on the fact that the first node in the element connectivity list is connected to the 2nd,3rd,4th,and 5th). thanks a lot for your help!

Since nobody has replied yet I'd like to add this to my request for help: I need what I explained above to calculate a mean normal direction to a node in order to move that node along that direction during a postprocessing of the abaqus results. All that could be avoided if somebody has an...

hi everybody does anyone have a suggestion on how to find the connected nodes (i mean the labels of those nodes) to a given node in a nodeset through a python script? it is important that this be carried out through a python script. thanks a lot!

thank you very much jeroenVW, i appreciate your interest and attempt to help. unfortunately my knowledge of abaqus is close to zero and so is my experience with programming languages of any kind (except for matlab), so, if it's possible to find it, i'm looking for a little more specific...

hi i'm new to abaqus. what i wanna do is to extract a certain output, process this output in matlab (preferably), or python, or something else, get the results from matlab and update the geometry of my object to run a second simulation in abaqus, and so on. all this in an automatized way. i...