@jhaley Got it. I'll take a look and get back to you.

@jhaley Sorry, I did not get anything yet. contact@feassistant.com

@jhaley Well, if they are that big try only including the acii and binout files from the output. D3plots would take up the most space

@jhaley If you feel comfortable doing so, you can email me a zipped folder of the sim .k files and the output files so I can take a look at what’s goi...

@jhaley In your folder where the binout file is, are there more than one binout file? You should load the binout0000 one or something similar to that

@jhaley Okay, how are you opening the binout file?

@jhaley In the *Database_ascii RWFORC make sure that you have a reasonable DT defined and try changing all of the outputs to Binary option 3. This wil...

@jhaley That is strange. So disclaimer, I never use *Rigidwall but I just make a 2D mesh and assign material *Mat_rigid. If we cannot get the issue re...

@ghillo Oh wow very cool! Unfortunately, I did not have .xls or xlsx attachments allowed prior so your attachment did not go through. I changed that r...

@ghillo Ah I see, you only have access to the results. Everything I mentioned would things to look for in the Pre-Processing phase, before the simulat...

@er18 Okay, so that blue mesh from Abaqus is a shell mesh and not a solid mesh? Because that offset function that I mentioned before will create an al...

Hi @ghillo, thanks for the great question! This is a fairly complex question and may require some time to solve fully. So you want to get strain respo...

@er18 Ah I see, you want to extrude the shell into a solid mesh in the normal direction to the mesh. This can be done in the 2D tab and then "Elem Off...

@er18 I’m not in front of my computer so I’m not sure this is right but you can go to the 2D tab and then either project, extrude, or drag should do w...

Okay so I think I understand. You want to create a mesh along that angled edge but in the normal direction to the screen (y-z plane)? Is that correct?