Converting .inp to .xml

Hello everyone,

Currently we are trying to replace abaqus with Fenics as our FE solver. However, as the initial data we recieve from ScanIP (convert ct scan data into fe model) is in .inp format, we first need to convert it to .xml to implement Fencis. The problem that I am currently facing is with this conversion. I am getting following errors:

rechnen@zeus:~/Downloads$ dolfin-convert new.inp new.xml
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *SOLID SECTION
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *MATERIAL
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *ELASTIC
WARNING: unrecognised Abaqus input keyword: *DENSITY
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/dolfin-convert”, line 132, in
main(sys.argv[1:])
File “/usr/bin/dolfin-convert”, line 79, in main
meshconvert.convert2xml(ifilename, ofilename, iformat=iformat)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dolfin_utils/meshconvert/meshconvert.py”, line 1301, in convert2xml
convert(ifilename, XmlHandler(ofilename), iformat=iformat)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dolfin_utils/meshconvert/meshconvert.py”, line 1340, in convert
abaqus.convert(ifilename, handler)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dolfin_utils/meshconvert/abaqus.py”, line 96, in convert
cell_type, cell_set_name = _read_element_keywords(cell_sets, l)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dolfin_utils/meshconvert/abaqus.py”, line 413, in _read_element_keywords
check_element_support(element_type)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dolfin_utils/meshconvert/abaqus.py”, line 482, in check_element_support
raise Exception(“Element type not supported.”)
Exception: Element type not supported.
rechnen@zeus:~/Downloads$

If anyone could help in solving this problem, it would be great help.

Thanks in advance.

Dolfin-convert has been deprecated for a long time.
You should use meshio to convert data to xdmf/xml