Let's say I have some 3D meshed part which has some predefined stress field and I want to deactivate all the elements which lie within some coordinate ranges (for example, all elements which lie in 0

My goal is to bundle such a sequence of element deactivations and deformations into a single Abaqus job. The "*Model Change" keyword doesn't quite allow me to bundle this sequence into a single Abaqus Job because it requires me to specify the elements I want to deactivate by element number - it's impossible to know the elements that will lie in the region (referencing my example above) 10

Is there some keyword or technique that will allow me to deactivate elements by coordinate instead of by element number?

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