How to only animate the even frames in Abaqus?-CodePudding

I'm working on thermal simulations in Abaqus. I only need to animate the even frame numbers, so instead of the animation going 1,2,3,4,5 I need it to go 2,4,6,8,10. Is there a way to only show the even frames? If so, how?

CodePudding user response：

Go to Result --> Active Steps/Frames and deselect the frames that you don't want to be displayed and animated.

CodePudding user response：

You can easily do this using Abaqus Python script.
Following is the overview of steps:

# getting current viewport object
vpName = session.currentViewportName
viewport = session.viewports[vpName]

# get odb object from viewport
odb= viewport.displayedObject

# Get all the steps available in the odb
stepNames = odb.steps.keys()

# Create animation object
ani = session.ImageAnimation(fileName='animation' ,format=AVI)

# add required frame to the animation object
for stepName in stepNames:
    stpID = odb.steps[stepName].number - 1
    nfrm = len(odb.steps[stp].frames)
    for frmID in range(0, nfrm, 2): # 2 --> even frames will be added
        viewport.odbDisplay.setFrame(step=stpID,frame=frmID)
        ani.writeFrame(canvasObjects=(viewport, ))
ani.close()