Visualising SPH (smooth particle hydrodynamics) results from Abaqus analysis

[ahmeda1]

I ran an SPH analysis in Abaqus and want to create a 3d visualisation with the stress output in a 3rd party software like Paraview so that I can get shadows and depth etc.
Is there a reliable way to export the relevant data? Looks like SPH node outputs are not outputed to file output in Abaqus?
Can I write a python script to extract information from the .odb database and use it in another software like paraview?


any help will be greatly appreciated?

 

[FEA way]

Particles in SPH analysis are treated as elements (PC3D) and their output supplied all variables available for continuum elements. The same applies to nodal output - it includes all variables that can be requested in Abaqus/Explicit analysis. What’s different for particle elements is the way their results are displayed in Abaqus/CAE. Since they are just points (1-node elements) they require special handling in contour plots. Abaqus visualizes them as spheres and for contour plots it uses circular patches of color to display their field output values. This may not be supported (or may require special adjustments) in external postprocessing software.