5.1.7 *DISPLAY BODY

Products: ABAQUS/Standard  ABAQUS/Explicit  

Features tested

The use of the *DISPLAY BODY option to indicate that an instance is used by ABAQUS for display only and does not affect the results of the rest of the model.

Problem description

The tests contain two instances, one of which is included in a *DISPLAY BODY option. This test verifies that the instance is not included in the analysis. It verifies the cases where the *DISPLAY BODY option references zero, one, or three nodes from the other instance.

Results and discussion

These tests verify that the instance included in the *DISPLAY BODY option does not take part in the analysis.

Input files

displaybody_ref0.inp

Test with no reference nodes.

displaybody_ref1.inp

Test with one reference node.

displaybody_ref3.inp

Test with three reference nodes.