On 11 Apr 2013, at 01:21, Omid Mahabadi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Christophe,
> I have been using the updated Gmsh with the Abaqus NSET export and it has 
> been working very well so far. I've only come across a tiny issue, that is, 
> the names of Physical Entities are not used from the geometry file. Instead, 
> they are numbered automatically in the exported inp file (e.g., 
> PhysicalLine2,..., PhysicalSurface1,...). Is there a way to preserve the 
> names specified in the geo file?
> 

This should be fixed in the latest svn.

Thanks for the feedback,

Christophe

> Thank you,
> Omid
> 
> 
> On 05/04/13 12:02 PM, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
>> On 05 Apr 2013, at 17:49, Omid Mahabadi <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 05/04/13 10:25 AM, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
>>>> On 05 Apr 2013, at 16:13, Omid Mahabadi <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I thought quite a bit about element types in Abaqus. The reality is that 
>>>>> there are so many different element types in Abaqus that makes defining a 
>>>>> "generic" type rather impossible. I would suggest to keep the default 
>>>>> Abaqus export as currently is, but give the user the option to define 
>>>>> custom types in the gmsh geometry file. For instance, in the case of a 2D 
>>>>> mesh, the user may define a maximum of two strings for the 1D and 2D 
>>>>> element types, which can look like:
>>>>> Mesh.Abaqus.ElementType.1D = "C1D2"
>>>>> Mesh.Abaqus.ElementType.2D = "C2D3"
>>>>> (I'm just mimicking gmsh's syntax here)
>>>>> 
>>>>> I discussed the above suggestion with another colleague of mine who has 
>>>>> used Abaqus in the past and it made sense to them. What are your thoughts?
>>>>> 
>>>> With SVN r15202 I at least changed the default tags to tags that should be 
>>>> understood by Abaqus/Standard (had to change lines, triangles and quads). 
>>>> We might want more flexibility in the future, but it might also be 
>>>> overkill (we need types for 1st order and 2nd order elements, etc.).
>>> I totally agree as user-defined types can get complicated.
>>> On a side note, for your information I've realized that now Element numbers 
>>> don't start from 1 anymore.
>> Indeed: that's a side-effect of the new scheme. Since we must remember the 
>> numbers in the ELSETS, we cannot just renumber on-the-fly as before.
>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Omid
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 05/04/13 06:35 AM, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
>>>>>> On 05 Apr 2013, at 12:07, Christophe Geuzaine <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 18 Mar 2013, at 18:03, Pierre-Frederic Villard 
>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I have issues with importing gmsh-created meshes in Abaqus 6.12. I 
>>>>>>>> tried two methods, which equally failed:
>>>>>>>> 1 - I tried to save the mesh as OpenCASCADE step format but I have an 
>>>>>>>> error:   "Error   : No OpenCASCADE model found"
>>>>>>> Hi Pierre-Frederic - This would actually not export the mesh, but the 
>>>>>>> CAD model - so it's not what you want.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 2 - I tried to save the model as an Abaqus INP file but I have a 
>>>>>>>> problem importing it in Abaqus : "Element type "C2D3" is not 
>>>>>>>> supported." with triangles and "Element type "C1D2" is not supported" 
>>>>>>>> with segments.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Indeed. I just had a look at the Abaqus documentation, and C2D3 and 
>>>>>>> C1D2 do not seem to be in the general "Element Indexes" available in 
>>>>>>> Abaqus/Standard.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What should we use when we export "generic" elements (i.e., not linked 
>>>>>>> to any physics)?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> @Omid - any ideas?
>>>>>> I've committed r15202 with the ideas from
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://geuz.org/trac/gmsh/ticket/129
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> @Abaqus users: let me know if this is better...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Does anyone have any idea how to solve this problem?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Pierre
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>> University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Omid Mahabadi
>>>>> Geomechanica, Inc.
>>>>> Tel: (647) 478-9767 x824
>>>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Omid Mahabadi
>>> Geomechanica, Inc.
>>> Tel: (647) 478-9767 x824
>>> 
> 
> -- 
> Omid Mahabadi
> Geomechanica, Inc.
> Tel: (647) 478-9767 x824
> 
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