Introduction

The GiD interfase Abaqus, permmits to extract mesh files suitable for input for the analysis software program Abaqus. The data that can be output with this interfase is the following:

Prepare the geometry and generate the mesh

The geometry is created or imported using the standard GiD commands (See GiD Help for details). And the mesh is also generated usign standard GiD commands.

Create sets

To create a new set with GiD it is necessary to assing a condition to the geometry entities (recommended), before generating the mesh, or to the mesh entities, after generating it.

To create the sets, open the condition window:

Data->Conditions

And use condition Nset to create nodes sets and the condition Elset to create element sets.

Output Abaqus file

To output the Abaqus file, use:

Files->Export->Write calculation file