ABAQUS viewer question

[ababoy]

Hi everyone,

In abaqus viewer, is there any ways to find out the value of each element area? Because the coordinate of the nodes can be found, so in theory the element area can be also calculated. But there are so many elements in a model, it's impossible to calculate manully.

Is there any function in abaqus viewer can use to directly find out the element area? or maybe in abaqus cae?

Thank you very much for everyone's help.

[Jorgen]

The only area output that I know if is the SOAREA variable that is part of the section output options. If you want more than this then you can write your own python-script that reads the odbfile and calculates the area for any element or group of elements at any given time. I have done this in the past and it is not that hard if you know abaqus-python.

- Jorgen