{"id":39329,"date":"2019-12-02T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/reading-abaqus-file-in-ansys-and-losing-the-material-assignment\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:30:59","slug":"reading-abaqus-file-in-ansys-and-losing-the-material-assignment","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/reading-abaqus-file-in-ansys-and-losing-the-material-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Abaqus file in Ansys, and losing the material assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Dear all,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We are trying to import an ABAQUS file into ANSYS workbench followingly:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">1. We have a tetrahedral mesh in Abaqus with&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline;\">elemental material assignment,<\/span>&nbsp;i.e.&nbsp; 4 materials distributed around in the solid, and there are clusters of elements with different material properties.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">2.&nbsp;Importing&nbsp;the&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline;\">.inp<\/span>&nbsp;file into the &#8220;<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">FE Modeller<\/strong>&#8221; module in workbench, the mesh, and the material assignments are correctly recognized.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">3. Connecting the &#8216;<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">model<\/strong>&#8216; component in the&nbsp;<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">FE Modeller<\/strong>&nbsp;to the &#8216;<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">model<\/strong>&#8216; component in the &#8220;<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Transient Structural<\/strong>&#8221; module, we recognize that the elemental&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline;\">material assignments are all lost<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The ultimate goal is to run FSI in Ansys, where the mesh and material assignment are directly read from the Abaqus file.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I would appreciate any input in this matter, and could provide files if required.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Thank you so much!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-39329","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["11508"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1271"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["39329"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["3085","162164"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["101141"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["101141"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-12-18 15:01:21"]},"test":"biomedmodeller"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/39329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/39329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}