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  1. BigwillyJohnson

    Parsing Abaqus .inp file with Matlab

    After thinking about this I have another question. Can python do the brute force math that matlab can do? If so then I would see were I should cut matlab out of the picture completely.
  2. BigwillyJohnson

    Parsing Abaqus .inp file with Matlab

    Thx for the reply. I ended up using fgets and fprintf to rewrite the file. It only takes a few seconds.
  3. BigwillyJohnson

    Parsing Abaqus .inp file with Matlab

    Hello All, I am trying to write data to specific locations in the .inp text file using matlab. My grand scheme' is to have matlab and abaqus work together to optimize a model. I can write to specific places but the incumbent text gets pushed and moved around. For example if a line has the...
  4. BigwillyJohnson

    Decomposing Von Mises Stress

    Hi Everyone, I am using beam elements in a wire frame model. I have found that I am only able to query S11 stress. I am able to query Von Mises and other combined stresses (tresca, maximum principle, etc) but not stress components such as S12 and S22. My question is there another method to...
  5. BigwillyJohnson

    Transposing orphan mesh geometry

    The format was an .inp. I chased my tail for a few days then realized exactly what you are saying. I am able to apply loads, b.c.s and everything else and then analyze it. Thanks anyway for the help -big
  6. BigwillyJohnson

    Transposing orphan mesh geometry

    Hello, I am trying to take a wire frame mesh generated outside Abaqus and then analyze it using CAE. I have been successful in importing the mesh into Abaqus and creating an orphan mesh. Unfortunately I cannot further modify this mesh such as adding loads or specifying properties. I...

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