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Dear Colleagues,

Body mechanics describes how your body moves. Being aware of and practicing good body mechanics throughout your day may help prevent injury and reduce strain on your body. Whether you're sitting at a desk all day or working on a drilling platform, you can practice and improve your body mechanics to help prevent stress and pain and reduce wear and tear on your muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints.

I try to work with the function setbymerge and I keep getting an error. (syntaxerror:invalid syntax)

I don't know what I do wrong see below the code line



part=mdb.models['mesh_for_analysis'].parts['PART-1']

part.SetByMerge(name='outer',sets=(part.[YminElemList], part.[YmaxElemList], part.[ZmaxElemList], part.[ZminElemList], part.[XmaxElemList], part.[XminElemList]))

I have two questions regarding the Abaqus

1) if I use the getbyboundingbox function on elements (or nodes) I get a long tuple (or I think it's a tuple) when I convert it to a list I can work with the Python normal commands like: append, remove etc. my problem is to change the list back to something that the Abaqus can work with. for example if I use the set function it doesn't work. see below a code for example.

2) if I have two sets and I want there intersection how can I do that?

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