Commands for selecting entities by location

[nice_guy]

Hi all,
I'm fairly new to Abaqus.
For the sake of automating tedious operations of selecting entities i'm looking for a way to make automatic selection of nodes/faces/edges by either location and/or it's size.
I'd like to run few command lines to do things like for example:
pick all nodes located in between 0-3 degrees of THETA on a cylindrical CS and then remove from the selection all nodes from of Z coordinate less than 5 and save all the selected nodes to a set.

I'll appreciate any kind of help.
Thanks!

 

[Mustaine3]

If you know the location of the thing you are looking for, then you can use getClosest(), findAt() or getByBoundingBox() - or cylinder or sphere.
But the locations have to be given in cartesian coordinates.

In your case I would cycle through all nodes (or a previously reduced set by a box) and check their coordinates. Again, you have to transform the coordinates to a cylindrical CSYS yourself, but that should be easy to do. If the node fulfills your criteria, then you can add it into a list or do whatever you want.