Abaqus : General Information

The GiD-Abaqus interface permits to extract mesh files suitable for input for the analysis software program Abaqus .

The interface is compatible from Abaqus 6.5.


The data that can be output after the preprocessing is detailed below:

  • The mesh: elements and nodes. All GiD supported elements can be printed, defining their formulation as an extra condition
  • Sets of nodes
  • Sets of elements
  • Sets of surfaces (defined by nodes or face elements)
  • Elastic materials
  • Local coordinate systems


Before running the simulation, the file needs to be edited in order to identify each one of the created sets with the corresponding condition.


Note: GiD can import .inp mesh files in Abaqus format without load this problemtype (the Abaqus mesh importer is implemented as another GiD plugin)