Stress Contours on 2D or 3D mesh
I have a 3D part that was 2D surfaced meshed and then 3D elements created.
It seems as if the stress contour results were set-up on the 2D mesh only.
Meaning the interior of the part does not have results, only the "skin"
Why would it be set up this way ?
Hypermesh using Abaqus
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Hi Jason, I sorted it out. Well, partially.
I now realize that the models I have been working with have both 3D elements , and 2D membrane elements. The results are out putted for the 2D elements.
Do you know how to to set-up the output to specify which mesh you want the solution for ?
Altair EmployeeI'm not an abaqus user, but check your output requests in elfile for S, SINV etc, and that the 'element set' request isn't set for just a reduced set of your elements (if element set is omitted it should be outputting results for everything)
Make sure you are requesting the correct results output. And make sure you are contouring the correct results output. It would be helpful if you share a picture.