Shell surface labels incorrect for Abaqus

Bug Reports
1

Hi,

I’ve noticed that surfaces defined on shells in PrePoMax v2.3.7 dev use naming not compliant with Abaqus even when it’s selected as a solver. For example, the following error message may appear:

 ***ERROR: UNDERLYING ELEMENT X CAN ONLY HAVE SPOS,SNEG,E1,E2,E3,E4 OR EDGE AS 
           A FACE IDENTIFIER

Here’s the file:
Shell edge naming for abq.pmx (32.3 KB)

Face numbering in Abaqus:

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Distributed loads (such as pressure) also need proper face numbers for labels like Px.

Also, I get this error when trying to open Abaqus results in PrePoMax:

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2

I will look into the shell surface definitions. And opening of the results is currently not supported, but I would need to remove the error and show a warning message.

3

Or maybe disable (gray out) the Results button for now when the solver is set to Abaqus. But a (tooltip) warning would still be helpful.