Okay I figured out that I had to open the output database file (.odb) to view the element sets in question. It turns out that the surfaces were not assigned material properties so I combined the volume and surface set into one element set:
*ELSET, ELSET=Combined1
Surface1, Surface2, Volume1...
I followed these steps to try and visualize the sets of elements with no luck. I get this error: “The Selected option is not available for Preprocessing Models”.
I have an issue trying to assign material properties to an orphan mesh generated from gmsh. In gmsh, I exported the surface, volume, and physical volume information and saved it as an ABAQUS input file (.inp). I made edits to this file and manually defined materials and assigned them to their...
