To obtain general information about your model, select Tools
Query from the main menu bar or click the query tool 
in the toolbar. Select one of the following from the General Queries field in the Query dialog box that appears:
Point/Node
Select a point or node. ABAQUS/CAE displays the X-, Y-, and Z-coordinates of the point.
Distance
Select two points or nodes. ABAQUS/CAE displays the following:
The X-, Y-, and Z-coordinates of each point.
The absolute distance between the points.
The X-, Y-, and Z-components of the vector between the two points.
Angle
Select two edges or two faces or select an edge and a face. ABAQUS/CAE displays one of the following, depending on your selection:
The angle between the two edges.
The angle between the normals to the face.
The angle between the edge and the normal to the face.
Feature
Click mouse button 3 on a feature in the Model Tree, and select Query from the menu that appears. ABAQUS/CAE displays the following information about the selected feature:
Name and description; for example, solid extrude.
Status—if the feature is suppressed or if it failed to regenerate.
The name of its parent, if any.
The names of its children, if any.
The value of any parameters that define the feature.
Shell/Membrane normals
For parts with shell regions. ABAQUS/CAE displays the part or assembly using the shaded render style. The side of the shell where the surface normal coincides with the shell normal (top face) is colored brown; the opposite side (bottom face) is colored purple.
For axisymmetric parts with wire regions, ABAQUS/CAE displays cyan arrows indicating the directions of the normals.
You can use the Assign menu in the Property module to reverse the normal directions. For more information, see “Assigning shell/membrane normal directions,” Section 12.12.6.
Beam/Truss tangents
ABAQUS/CAE displays cyan arrows indicating the directions of the beam tangents.
You can use the Assign menu in the Property module to reverse the tangent directions. For more information, see “Assigning beam/truss tangent directions,” Section 12.12.7.
Mesh stack orientation
You can use this tool to query only hexahedral, wedge, and quadrilateral elements because these are the only elements that can be stacked to form a continuum shell, cohesive, or gasket mesh. For hexahedral and wedge elements, ABAQUS/CAE colors the top face brown and the bottom face purple. Similarly, arrows indicate the orientation of quadrilateral elements. In addition, ABAQUS/CAE highlights any element faces and edges that have inconsistent orientation. For more information, see “Modeling continuum shells,” Section 21.4, “Creating a model with cohesive elements using geometry and mesh tools,” Section 21.1.3, and “Modeling gaskets,” Section 21.6.
If the region is a native ABAQUS mesh, you can change the mesh stack orientation by changing the direction of the sweep path. If the region is an orphan mesh, you can use the Edit Mesh toolset to change the mesh stack orientation. For more information, see “Specifying the sweep path,” Section 17.16.6, and “Orienting the stack direction,” Section 41.6.4.
Part/Instance mesh
Name of the part or part instance
Number of nodes
Number of elements
Number of elements for each element shape
Element
Element label
Element topology; for example, linear hexahedron
ABAQUS element name; for example, C3D8I
Nodal connectivity.
Mesh gaps/intersections
Select the orphan mesh parts or part instances, and enter the maximum distance between a node and an element face. ABAQUS/CAE highlights element edges that intersect the boundary faces and element edges that are closer than the specified distance to boundary faces.
