ABAQUS - Additional Information

Setting the environment

Before running ABAQUS on UNIX or Linux, you must first set your environment. You can set the environment for an individual session by typing:

source $SOFT/abaqus

at the command prompt.

If you will be using ABAQUS on a regular basis, you can add the following lines to your .cshrc file.

 if ( -r $SOFT/abaqus) then
source $SOFT/abaqus

endif 

Now, each time you login, your environment will be set to run ABAQUS. The first time you run ABAQUS after adding the above lines to the .cshrc file you will need to run the command 'source ~/.cshrc' or log out then back in.

By default, when you start ABAQUS, you will run the teaching version. The advantage of this is there are 30 seats of ABAQUS/CAE, the pre/post processor environment for ABAQUS. The research version only has eight seats of CAE so they may be checked out already.

When your model is setup and you are ready to do the analysis runs, you can change to the research version of ABAQUS by creating the file, abaqus_v6.env in your home directory. It will contain the following line:

academic=RESEARCH

You can switch back to the teaching version by changing the line to:

academic=TEACHING

Starting ABAQUS

Windows Systems

On an engineering Windows system, select Start/All Programs/ABAQUS 6.X-X/ ABAQUS CAE.

Linux Compute Servers

The default version of ABAQUS on the LINUX servers is 6.9-2. You can start it just by typing:

abaqus cae (will launch ABAQUS with a GUI)
or
abaqus
It will prompt you for the input job and other parameters you want. See the documentation for details.

If you start the ABAQUS documentation server with the command:

abaqus doc

one of the choices is on-line tutorials for ABAQUS. There are example files that can be copied to your workspace for these tutorials.

Help

Selecting HELP in ABAQUS will start the on-line documentation for the specific part of ABAQUS you are using.