Help on slow attribute copy

[bgs]

Hmm, it looks like the dot operator has been overloaded to do something
complicated.  (although if you haven't already, try "for i in nodes:
pass" just to make sure).  Is it retrieving the data from the network
somewhere?  If so, then it looks like it is probably retrieving each
coordinate individually on each iteration of the loop.  Perhaps there
is some way of retrieving them all in one bunch?

It's difficult to say more without knowing anything about abaqus and
its interface.