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I wish to be able to extract stress (S11) and its corresponding element's z-coordinates only in a certain bounding cylinder. My ODB files are relatively big and it would be quite helpful if I could limit the number of elements I have to compute. I need to use scripting and avoid viewport manipulation as I've a large number of ODBs to process.

I have attached a schematic of an example ODB.

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Somsubhro Chaudhuri
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  • ideally you would partition the geometry to create an element set containing elements in the target region. – agentp Nov 29 '17 at 13:07
  • Hello agentp. Thank you for your response. I'm using an orphan mesh in Abaqus. Using scanIP, a meshing software, to create the mesh for my required resolution. – Somsubhro Chaudhuri Nov 29 '17 at 14:46
  • Hello, I am using getByBoundingCylinder - "myNodes = AllNodes.getByBoundingCylinder(centre1, centre2, radius)" Would you know how I could convert the array myNodes into a set so that I could use the probe function in Visualization to write S11 and Z coordinates to a file? – Somsubhro Chaudhuri Nov 29 '17 at 16:53
  • Figured out the sets bit. For an orphan mesh, it needs to take the complete node set from model.instances to create a set. – Somsubhro Chaudhuri Nov 30 '17 at 08:18

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