12.9 Wrapping an orphan mesh

Product: ABAQUS/CAE  

Benefits: You can easily transform a planar orphan mesh part into a cylindrical orphan mesh part.

Description: You can wrap a planar orphan mesh part at a specified radius about the global Z-axis, as shown in Figure 12–7.

Figure 12–7 Wrapping a planar orphan mesh part.

The wrapping procedure will relocate a node at point (, ) on the planar mesh to (), where is the specified radius, = , and =.

Note:  This functionality is available only through the ABAQUS Scripting Interface.

ABAQUS/CAE Usage: 
ABAQUS Scripting Interface:
   part.wrapMesh(radius)   
References:

ABAQUS/CAE User's Manual

ABAQUS Scripting Reference Manual