how to plot missing properties elements?

[n3l3]

I get the typical
"The elements have been identified in element set ErrElemMissingSection"
but I can not see the set neither in the odb viewer nor the assembly viewer nor the part viewer.
how do I plot the set?

thx a lot = )

 

[corus]

Use the display group/manager under tools and select the set.

Tara

 

[n3l3]

thank you so much for replying so fast,
i entered the display group manager, but there are no display groups or sets to plot!
(when i open the odb it says, "Odb only contains user defined data")

i mean, the resolution does not start, because of the missing properties, so I would like to plot where this missing is placed, in order to assign the properties ( I guess you know this, but i am just trying to clarify the problem )

 

[corus]

Try internal sets.

Tara

 

[DanStro]

You can also view the results, expand out the odb and go to element sets.

 

[rstupplebeen]

Before I submit a job I go into the assembly and view material properties. If one is not assigned it is gray and ghosted. I hope this helps.

Rob Stupplebeen

https://sites.google.com/site/robertkstupplebeen/

 

[n3l3]

thank you so much for your reply, but I must say that I haven´t solved the problem.

At the submitting , in the input file analisys, I get the: "The elements have been identified in element set ErrElemMissingSection"
so the resolution does not start. therefore the odb is empty, despite abaqus says that those elements are identified in the element set..
There is no element set created!!!!!
(Or at least i can´t find it neither in the part module, nor in the assembly module, nor in the odb results (that is empty), nor in the display group manager, neither in the internal sets or element sets, etc..)

(PD, what the h.. is tata and tara??? ) = )

 

[corus]

Check each part in the property module to see if a section has been assigned to it. As Rob says it'll be grey if it has no section property, but you can also check in the section manager.

FYI Both the words tata and tara mean goodbye in colloquial english, though the former word also means to me - work for little reward.

Tara

 

[n3l3]

Yes, as both rstupplebeen and corus you two say, the point is to check that all the elements have assigned a section prop.
this is easy when you are working with not too many diferent features, in the part, with different sections to asign.

In this case I have several features than intersect each other, therefore there are little regions that you do not pick (unwittingly
) when you choose the feature in order to make the assigment, and it´s not easy to see, even in the property module with a color for each section.
The section manager does not help me either, the only thing that it does ( i think), is to show the assigned regions.
Thats why I want to plot the elements without section assignment.

thank you so mucho for your help and then... Tara =)

 

[corus]

A good strategy when you have a lot of sections, say when you have shell elements with different thicknesses everywhere, is to create sets of the different sections and then assign the sections to the sets. You can then easily check you have assigned all the section properties to all regions of the part by using the display group manager and selecting sets and remove each one from the display. What you'll have left on display are the regions that haven't been included in sets and hence have no section properties assigned to them. Simples.

Tara

 

[n3l3]

definitely, that was what I was doing right now

thanks a lot for your help