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[eng23bio]

Hi Everybody,

I am currently working in an proyect with ABAQUS/CAE 6.9. involving inverse dynamics. I am testing some algorithms with Matlab so I need an output in a txt,rpt,dat... file. In my first attempts i did a path containing some nodes and another one containing all of them. Then i made an xy-data for the displacements (in each step, first there was around 10 steps, today more than 20, tomorrow... who knows) in x-axis(global), another one for the displacements in y-axis(global) and that is all because, at the moment, my problem is only 2-D.

Here come my questions:
is there another way to obtain a file with all the displacements in the different steps? I have also tried the *Node print command but i get lots of information an i need to "work" with the data to obtain a decent format.(My python knowledge is zero, should i learn a little bit?)
Can i make a path using multiple steps?

I hope you can help me, i am quite new with abaqus.

Thank you all in advance!!

 

[corus]

Try defining a set, or sets, to use with the Node print command. This will limit the amount of data you print out to the dat file.

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[eng23bio]

Hi Corus,

thank you for your answer! but it is not what i am looking for, i need to know the displacements of all 1000+ nodes. The extra information i am talking about is the abaqus version, mat properties...

Ideally i could obtain a matrix (txt,csv,dat... file with the data) with all the displacements in all the steps. Any idea?

Thank you again!