# Exporting segmentation to Abaqus

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/exporting-segmentation-to-abaqus/13974>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** segmentation, fem\
**Created:** [October 10, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/exporting-segmentation-to-abaqus/13974 "2020-10-10T13:23:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/exporting-segmentation-to-abaqus/13974/14 "2026-04-17T14:29:17Z")

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Hi Mr. Lasso,

Ive been having a similar issue with my own work, as I have a model that I wish to import to Abaqus, however the first time I did this it opened as a surface mesh and as such I couldn’t apply sections to the model. Ive been trying to use the meshio package to convert it into an .inp file as mentioned in [this forum discussion](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/convert-a-surface-mesh-to-a-volumetric-mesh-in-3d-slicer/1416/15), but I am struggling in the python console as i keep getting the error that it cannot read my .vtk file as a vtk, as shown below

> > > import meshio

\>\>\> input\_vtk = r"C:\Users\tomyf\OneDrive - Loughborough University\Desktop\Specimen1\_VOI4\_Scan1\_1.vtk"

\>\>\> mesh = meshio.read(input\_vtk)

Error: Couldn’t read file C:\Users\tomyf\OneDrive - Loughborough

University\Desktop\Specimen1\_VOI4\_Scan1\_1.vtk as vtk  
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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