Centroid of Nodal Points

[rjd150]

Hi all,

Is there a quick way abaqus can calculate and display the centroid of selected nodal coordinates on an instance from an odb file? The query toolkit doesn't really have the option I am looking for. For example, say I choose a few nodal coordinates and I want abaqus to calculate the geometric centroid of those points. How can I get abaqus to do this without having to calculate the centroid manually, through a script? I'm not talking about the element centroid that's output through the mass properties query either but just specifically the centroid of nodal points.

Thanks for the help.

 

[IceBreakerSours]

I do not think Abaqus will calculate it for you. You could just write a Python script to do it.

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