Grid Import from Abaqus .Inp file

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Has anyone tried to import Grid from Abaqus Input file? I tried, and it shows the information as below. It seems only gridpoints have been generated. However, I cannot plot them, and I do not know what’s the process to generate the corresponding FLAC3D model. There is little description in the online manual.

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This specifies an ABAQUS compatible mesh file, with an normally expected extension of [inp]. Acceptable ABAQUS elements are “c3d4”, “c3d5”, “c3d6”, and “c3d8”. Other ABAQUS elements are not supported.

Attached is an example.
mesh_abaqus.zip (86.6 KB)

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Below is the grid of the above example:

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Thanks, Cheng!
So if I need to build a complicate structure model with Beam, Shell, and Liner, I have to build it from scratch? We have the strucuture model in SACS, Abaqus, or AutoCAD. Is there any short-cut by using the available models? The only thing I can think of is to import geometric data from the Pane “Geometry”. Any advice would be very much appreciated!