Emilio Martínez Pañeda

Thank you, Nico, for your fast reply. Yes, I am interested in solid elements, CPE4 or CPE8 are probably the most popular in the solid mechanics community. Are these kind...

Thank you Nico. I am asking about regular quad4 (and/or quad8) elements. You say that they are supported by "all mesh formats" - except for Abaqus I presume? I was...

Thank you Nico for your fast reply. However, I may be missing something. I am a very experienced Abaqus user (+6 years), and I am quite sure that regular quads...

I see. Now it is clear why we did not understand each other. Yes, that is a quad and then meshio has the capability of converting a mesh of quads...

Uhm, I just realized that there may be another difference. When employing shell elements (e.g., S4), the nodal coordinates are given in the 3D space (x,y,z). But when using solid...

Plane stress or plane strain quadrilateral elements. As opposed to other elements with 4 nodes, such as shells, which are intended to model 3D structural problems with loads acting in...

See here for the case of ANSYS (and 8 nodes, the quadratic version): http://www.ansys.stuba.sk/html/elem_55/chapter4/ES4-145.htm Or what is referred as Q1 in the Periodic Table of Finite Elements: http://femtable.org/femtable.pdf I believe...

@kinnala This is the same as basically changing in my Abaqus input file "CPE4" by "T4", as for meshio they should be identical (except for the fact that T4s have...

[abaqus_mesh_ex.zip](https://github.com/nschloe/meshio/files/2667275/abaqus_mesh_ex.zip)

Yes, I removed all the information not related to the mesh, that is why there is an asterisk missing. May I ask, you just did meshio-convert abaqus_mesh_ex.inp out.xml?