Element Entity Set won't export

William Kuo_21386
William Kuo_21386 New Altair Community Member
edited July 2023 in Community Q&A

Hello!

I am an issue with exporting an entity set set. I set my solver export to display with abaqus explicit. The only components that are displayed are the solid tetras. I have multiple other entity sets. Three element entity set covers each of their own section of the model. One element entity set covers the entire model. The element entity set that I having trouble exporting are elements that are on the surface of the solid model. I use "find" to get all the attached elements to the surface mesh and put them in an entity set. Whenever I check the input file, it's always missing that surface element set. In fact, I would have ID=10 and ID=12 entity set but no ID = 11 entity set with my surface element. My entity set do indeed have elements but for whatever reason and through multiple hours of testing through scripts and GUI, I have failed to export this element set. If anyone can help out or had similar experiences, please let me know. It would be much appreciated!

Sincerely, William

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  • Jason_Craanen
    Jason_Craanen
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2023

    Hello,

    Can you verify through the entity state browser the set in question is checked?

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  • William Kuo_21386
    William Kuo_21386 New Altair Community Member
    edited July 2023

    Hi! I solved the issue.

    The problem occurs when you are trying to export entity sets without its data. My surface entity set includes data points from many other components but I am only exporting only a set of those components. This causes my surface entity set to not be exported but everything else do.

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