I have tried going through the manuals to find out how I can change the coordinate system from rectangular (cartesian) to spherical and tried a number of ways with no success can anyone please offer any help on this.
I wondered if there was a way of having abaqus convert the coordinates from cartesian to spherical/cylindrical without having to define all the nodes in the input file, i.e. maybe a feature in CAE to change from cartesian to spherical. Does anyone know if you can, I couldn't find anything in the manual.
I don't know is it possible with Abaqus/CAE, however there is one more keyword which can be helpful
to make conversion between coordinates systems. Please check *NMAP keyword.