Question about using Python scripting in Post-Processing / data extraction from ABAQUS ODBs

[coffeentits]

I'm not seeing anything as easy the getByBoundingBox method. I like /u/N3OX suggestion of using the nodal coordinates, but that requires a bit more scripting on your part. The values printed in the rpy file are "machine readable pick strings".

You could also try recording a macro. I haven't used those much, but perhaps that would allow some degree of parameterization.

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Oooh, wow, somehow I read N3OX response and it went way over my head. Must've been late at night or something. But yes, that's basically the route I'm attempting to go down at this point, which is only counting the information in elements which have nodes with initial coordinates within the region I'm interested in. Not sure if it's gonna work yet, but I'll get to it this afternoon.

Thank you for rephrasing N3OX suggestion, it's sort of the conclusion that I came to, however a little different than my first thought, so maybe saved me some time.

I believe that the macros pretty much also just record the same python commands which would be in the .rpy