Duplicate elements with attached set segment faces - HM21 - Abaqus profile

Lawrence Yan
Lawrence Yan Altair Community Member
edited August 2021 in Community Q&A

I'm trying to duplicate some elements and at the same time duplicate the faces attached to those elements on the matching set segments. At least up until HM 2017 when Abaqus surface elements were stored on groups, you could duplicate the elements with the said groups as visible and the surfaces would be duplicated as well. On HM21 it doesn't seem to be a direct way to interact with the surfaces apart from the contact browser and it's way harder to create models like this. As for now I can either recreate all of my contact surfaces or use a trick to export and import the parts and end up with duplicated set segments. On the later option I still need to merge the segments or create new interactions. Either of those options is much more time consuming then it used to be. 

 

Is there any way to do it as it was on HM17?