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[Ma Mas]

Hello everyone!

Can you help me export the mesh of the ANSYS mechanical to the abaqus format? I want a mesh file contain the node location and connectivity of the mesh.

[Sampat Kumar]

Hi Ma Mas,

We’re unable to view your question. Could you please upload it again? It appears there was an issue with the initial upload.

Are you attempting to export a mesh from ANSYS Mechanical to ABAQUS? If so, please describe any errors you encounter during the export process. Could you please outline the steps you took to export the mesh?

Regards,
Sampat

 

 

[Ma Mas]

Hello

Thank you very much for your reply. I aim to create a file for my mesh that includes the locations of the nodes and the connectivity of the elements. I would greatly appreciate your assistance with this.

 

 

 

[Sampat Kumar]

 

Hi Ma Mas,
You can follow the process as peteroznewman mentioned. Right-click on the static structural or Model, and then you can export it as a Nastran file.  
To check whether the Model( Abaqus) available in the student version or not, you can Go to WB and click on “View All/ Customize” and see if the model(Abaqus) static structural ( Abaqus) is marked or not. 

 

[peteroznewman]

This discussion has a screen image of the popup menu to export the Nastran file from a Workbench Static Structrual or Modal analysis.

[peteroznewman]

After you export a Nastran file from Ansys, import that into ABAQUS.

[dave]

If you are struggling with license, I'm not 100% sure this will work, but you could try getting the student version of Altair Hypermesh, that might be able to read in ansys .cdb mesh files and export abaqus deck.

[Ma Mas]

Hello

Thank you very much for your reply. I cannot find Modal (ABAQUS) in my ANSYS student version. Additionally, I am attempting to right-click on the solution and export NASTRAN. However, when I click on that option, nothing happens. What should I do to export using that option?

Furthermore, can I have a file named **.dat in the working directory? I want to use that to find the connectivity of the tetrahedral elements. There is a line like this:

/wb,elem,start            !  set before creation of elements
/com,*********** Elements for Body 1 "SYS-5\WW" ***********
et,1,187
eblock,19,solid,,10617
(19i9)
        1        1        1        1        0        0        0        0       10        0        1     1782     1797     1798     2925    15576    15669    15577    15578
    15673    15679

        1        1        1        1        0        0        0        0       10        0        2     1796     1799     1797     2925    15661    15670    15660    15666
    15684    15673

....

 

I want to know which ones represent the connectivity. For each tetrahedron, there should be only 4 numbers indicating connectivity. I cannot understand this file. Can you help me comprehend it? my goal is to create a file for my mesh contains the location of the nodes and connectivity of the elemnts. I want to use it in CCX solver.