Using .ori file in ABAQUS CAE

[willsenwijaya]

Hi,

Would be possible to make use of the .ori file if I am importing the .inp file in ABAQUS CAE?
Thank you

[cnzhx]

I think there are two possible approaches to do this, but you have to figure out the details of performing these. Hopefully, Dr Louise may have a better way.

1. To use .ori file as a tabular data to create a field (in Fields as Discrete Field) then assign it as discrete orientation to the imported part.

• To integrate the .ori file in the .inp file according to the manner of Abaqus doing this, then import the new integral .inp file into Abaqus. (You might want to write some text processing script to do the integration considering the large amount of data in the files.)

Regards,
Haoxian

[louisepb]

Hi,
If you load the .inp file generated by TexGen into Abaqus CAE it will load the orientations. (If you try creating a job and running it and look at the inp file for the job you will see that the orientations have been extracted from the ori file and inserted into the inp under the *Distribution keyword).

You won't be able to run the job successfully however as the many to many node equations used in the inp file will only run from the command line.

Hope that helps,
Louise

[willsenwijaya]

Hi Louise and Cnzhx,

Thank you very much for your kind replies! Regarding the first comment made by Cnzhx, I realized that when I imported the .inp file into TexGen, there exists a discrete fields named as "PART-1_TEXGENORIENTATIONVECTORS" which (I believe) contain the orientation of each element within the mesh system. I can just assign this discrete field to each of the tows of my textile unit cell, can't I?
I don't quite understand the issue that you mentioned regarding the inability for the job to be solved successfully due to "node to node equations"? Thank you

[louisepb]

Hi,
Hopefully I have answered the question about the equations in the other thread.

Best regards,
Louise