In my .inp, I include the following command in it:
*Node Print, GLOBAL=YES COORD
When I run an analysis using this .inp file, the .dat file has the following warning:
"***Warning: Output Request COORD IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS TYPE OF ANALYSIS"
I've also tried using the command:
*Node Print, GLOBAL=YES COOR1, COOR2, COOR3
This also gives the same warning and doesn't produce the nodal coordinates.
I noticed in the documentation of the COORD output variable it says that "Coordinates of the node. These are the current coordinates if the large-displacement formulation is being used.". Does this mean that we can only use COORD if our simulation uses a large-displacement formulation (I assume this means Abaqus Explicit...)?
Is there any alternative way to get the nodal coordinates at a particular step in Abaqus Standard?
Edit:
Disregard my previous questions. I figured out how to get the nodal coordinates into the .dat file. My previous issue was that I was including the following command in a step which was not a static analysis.
*Node Print, GLOBAL=YES COORD
By placing this command in a static analysis step, I was able to get the nodal coordinates in the .dat file. My new problem is that the nodal coordinates I get are the coordinates of the nodes before they are displaced at all. Is this the intended behavior of the command shown above? If this is the case, is the only way to get the displaced nodal coordinates by explicitly extracting the nodal displacements and the original nodal coordinates and adding the two?