Output Variable for Displacement? 1

[YooperGirl]

I'm trying to print a nodal value for the displacement of a node from the previous step. Is there a variable that will do this? The variable "U" seems to be the displacement from the base node.

 

[Jlog50]

Hi YooperGirl,

I am also looking for this, did you have any progress with it. Thanks

 

[xerf]

You can use Abaqus/CAE -> Visualization to create a new node field from U(step2)-U(step1) and plot it as any other quantity.

 

[Jlog50]

Thanks xerf

 

[YooperGirl]

I ended up pulling the coordinates of that point, saving them, then on the next step, writing a vector defined by the difference between the current coordinates and previous coorinates. I do this all directly in the subroutine.