Pre-process of modelling

[JayTung]

After setting up the model in CAE, involving drawing geometry and assigning material, is there any subroutine for me to extract the location of some designated nodes ? We need to add some constraints in those nodes.

The extract nodes are those contacting nodes of two instances.

Thanks

 

[corus]

Partition the model at those locations

 

[JayTung]

Thanks. In order to do elastic dislocation constraint, I need a pair of node on each contacting location. Those two nodes in each pair are of same position but with different movement so that a slip is simulated.

I have have written a small c++ script to pick each pair but I wonder if there are other toolbox or subroutine can help me so that I dont need to write a script for other models.

Thanks

 

[GregLocock]

It sounds as though a coincident nodes check would throw up a list of candidates

Cheers

Greg Locock


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[JayTung]

Greg,

Thanks a lot. I will try the function of coincident nodes in abaqus.

Cheers,
Jay