ABAQUS: How to create a Set for a WirePolyLine in Abaqus Scripting?

[hwa0725]

Hi all,

This was a question asked in the past with no answer, thread799-391993, wondering if anyone has found a way to define a set for a wire in Abaqus scripting?

In Abaqus, a wire is a feature however the Set() method does not have an argument to receive a feature object and instead, the edge argument was used to define the set for a wire feature.

When creating a set, the script I was using is

mdb.models['Model-3'].rootAssembly.Set(edges=mdb.models['Model-3'].rootAssembly.edges.findAt(((2862.5, 5900.0, 0.0), )), name='Set-412')

, as you can see it requires a coordinate to pinpoint the location where the wire is located. This is not very useful if I have a zero-length wire connecting 2 edges as the same point will have multiple edges.

Does anyone knows a good way I can do something like edges=mdb.models['Model-3'].rootAssembly.features['WireName']? This is currently giving me an error.

Thanks very much!

Regards,

Heng

 

[FEA way]

Check this thread:

https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=479332

 

[hwa0725]

Thank you FEA way,

So the solution is to assign the created wire instance to a variable and then reuse that wire object by calling the variable without needing to know its coordinates, this is straightforward, I should have thought of this..