Hello, I am stuck at the postprocessing stage, trying to extract the node variable U, both directly from the odb (field output), and also using the .fin file. I have several questions -- Firstly, for the fin part, in the line U =readFil([ Inp_file '.fil' ], 101 ) , I changed 'fil' to 'fin' to read the .fin file. Is that correct? What exactly does the 101 signify in the above line? Is this an index for the variable U? On running the above, U{1,1} is a 617232x4 matrix. Is 617232 the number of elements? Then why are there 4 columns? Shouldn't there be 3 columns for u1, u2, u3? Lastly, when I run the code to extract the field output data (I presume that is what this is): odb_name=[Inp_file, '.odb']; out=exploreFieldOdb(odb_name); % Read the field output contained in AbaqusInputFile.odb stepName='pull'; nsetName= 'False' ; instanceName= 'False' ; indOut='False'; %(no dat file) indOut='True'; %(create dat file) outputVar='U'; [odbOut_U,odbDat_U,rpyOut_U]=readNodeFieldOdb(odb_name,stepName,instanceName,nsetName,outputVar,indOut); I get the following errors: What is wrong with the code? What is the 'ind' file? And does nsetName='False' refer to the entire system? If I want to extract data from just some node set, do I put in its name here?

Hello, I generally extract output by creating an xy data set from field or history output. Why does A2M use this fin/fil file to extract data? What is contained inside it that is not in the field output? Thank you.

Hello, I am performing a explicit-analysis, I change my inp from the app of Matlab but then.. when I run it, the .fil is not generated. I see that it is do not writen anything as FILE FORMAT, ASCII and so on, as I used to do before, is it necessary? Thanks in advance, GREAT WORK.