Export of deformed mesh geometry from ABAQUS

[hegge]

Hello everybody,

I am planning to do some simulations of tire deformation in ABAQUS. For an eventual validation of the results (if I get that far), I need to be able to export the deformed mesh as a geometry to a CAD modeler.

Does there exist such a method to do this in ABAQUS? It would be sufficient to get the (x,y,z) coordinates of the mesh to create a simple txt file.

Thanks in advance,

Best regards
Henrik Andersson

[Jorgen]

Hej Henrik,

You can extract the geometric information (e.g. the coordinates for the nodes) using an external _python_ script after your simulation has finished running.

It is not particulaly hard to do, assuming that you know the computer language _python_.

-Jörgen

[hegge]

Hej Jörgen,

thanks for the quick reply. I have some experience with python, so I think it shouldn't be to much effort to code a script for this.

I started looking in the ABAQUS Scripting manual, but I couldn't really find what to look for. I presume that I should look in the "Odb commands" section.

Could you please give me a hint for which command to use ?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards
Henrik Andersson

[hhspiny]

Hej Jörgen,

thanks for the quick reply. I have some experience with python, so I think it shouldn't be to much effort to code a script for this.

I started looking in the ABAQUS Scripting manual, but I couldn't really find what to look for. I presume that I should look in the "Odb commands" section.

Could you please give me a hint for which command to use ?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards
Henrik Andersson


there is simpler way of doing this. you can do an analysis, and import the deformed mesh into abaqus CAE as an orphan mesh part. I believe from there you can export as XMVL (might spell it wrong), with CAD packages such as solidworks, you can convert it to solid model. there should be an answer in abaqus's webpage.