For FEA like massive calculations, it is recommended to go for high clock speed and lower core count (disable hyperthreading) to avoid I/O bottleneck. Though your problem seem to be related to installation errors.
I found a script that does convert the odb file to vtk, but I am encountering an error because my simulation was performed in double precision (it works fine with single precision data).
The error is occuring at line 183 of the odb2vtk.py file -
OdbError: Data is double precision. Use...
Yes, its quite a large code base so updating it is not an option.
Another option would be to convert the odb to vtk format and use paraview to post-process.
I am using an in-house code to visualize results from .odb file but it only supports version 6.10 to 6.14 odb file. Is there an utility or tool to downgrade the version of .odb file?
@Dave442, Thanks for the tip, I always follow this rule while doing quasi-static analysis in ABAQUS/Explicit.
In the experiment I am applying loading as "linear ramp", but in the simulation I am defining loading as "Smooth step". While in quasi-static strain-rate (10-4 s-1) this is not...
Smooth step (Amplitude) is helpful in avoiding excessive distortion at the beginning of the analysis, but I was wondering what is the maximum initial strain-rate we can use it? Say for example, in quasi-static the strain rate is 10-4 s-1 and Smooth step gives a better result than Ramp loading...
Thank's Dave, It worked! I created the Sets on Geometry and they got transferred in mesh parts. Upon merging the mirrored mesh parts, the sets got merged too.
I thnak all of the members that replied, this has been a great help.
@Mustaine3, "Add adjacent entities" selects some extra elements inside the joints. Selection by topology is not selecting the regions I want to select.
@cooken, I am not quite an expert in Python scripting, Abaqus/CAE is preferred to me.
I am stuck with this problem for weeks, I would really...
I have created a mesh part and trying to make an element set from a specific region of the part, I have used the select "by Angle" but it only selects the outer elements. Is there any way I can select the inner elements as well? Please note that Selecting Individually is not an option as the...
@cooken, the geometry is as is, can not create a separate box in ABAQUS.
However, I have tried your Extrude solid suggestion and it worked. Thank you!!
Note that the internal face extrusion did not work, I extruded internal side face to another face, shown below -
@Mustaine3, I need to have same meshing pattern on the opposite faces to enforce periodic boundary conditions, the outer box will have no voids resulting in regular meshing pattern on all faces. The general box with voids is not going to achieve this, I tried copy mesh pattern on opposite faces...
@Mustaine3, My real geometry is complicated, it is filled with randomly distributed voids of arbitrary shape and size generated from a composite simulation. So I can not use Boolean operation, I was hoping to create an internal box containing all voids and an outer box near the faces as there...
@Mustaine3, Could you please elaborate a bit?
This box above is just a trial geometry. My actual box has an elliptical void (inclusion) in the middle so creating an internal partition will let me have Hexa-mesh on the outer faces. I have attached the geometry, maybe you would be kind enough to...
Hi,
I am trying to partition a simple cubic box, but the partition has to be internal, basically another cubic box inside the original box.
Below is what I have achieved by using Partition Face: Sketch and Partition Cell: Extrude Edges. The box is made transparent to show the internal...
@Dave442, You are right, it only works on surface mesh. I have a cubic geometry (solid box), I have read that there is a command in Mesh module to generate only the surface mesh. Can you please let me know how do I create a surface only mesh?
