How to extract the output fields from abaqus using cmd window?

[Khawaja Ali]

Hello,

I am running the multiple jobs in abaqus through a batch file using cmd window. It is working well. However, I have to open each .odb file manually and go to visualization to extract the output fields (i.e., U, UR) at a specific node (center node) in my bridge model. As there are many .odb files, it is taking so much time and it is so boring, especially when I have to repeat the analyses.

Is there any way to extract the output fields using cmd window at a specific node for the specific Step (which is LAST Step in my case) and for all frames (which are 1 to 12000 in my case)? I want to extract data in CSV file format such that my first column should be the time, second column U1, third column U2, fourth U3, fifth UR1, and so on. Each column will have 12000 rows because total number of frames are 12000 for the LAST Step. I hope you get my point. Please give me any idea.

Thanks
Khawaja Ali

 

[IceBreakerSours]

Abaqus comes with a Python API so you need to write a Python script that will automate your post-processing.

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