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# 3.2.12 Abaqus DOCUMENTATION

Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit Abaqus/CAE

# References

• “Execution procedure for Abaqus: overview,” Section 3.1.1   
• “Getting help,” Section 2.6 of the Abaqus/CAE User’s Guide

# Overview

Abaqus documentation is installed separately from the product and is viewed through a web browser or PDF reader. See Chapter 2, “Installing Abaqus,” of the Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide, for information on installing the Abaqus documentation.

The documentation consists of the following books:

• Abaqus Analysis User’s Guide   
• Abaqus/CAE User’s Guide   
• Abaqus Keywords Reference Guide   
• Abaqus Theory Guide   
• Abaqus User Subroutines Reference Guide   
• Abaqus Glossary   
• Abaqus Example Problems Guide   
• Abaqus Benchmarks Guide   
• Abaqus Verification Guide   
• Abaqus Release Notes   
• Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide   
• Getting Started with Abaqus/CAE   
• Abaqus Scripting User’s Guide   
• Abaqus Scripting Reference Guide   
• Abaqus GUI Toolkit User’s Guide   
• Abaqus GUI Toolkit Reference Guide   
• Using Abaqus Online Documentation

# Using Abaqus documentation

# To view the documentation:

1. Type abaqus doc.

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The documentation collection page (index.html or index.pdf file) opens in either a web browser or Adobe Acrobat Reader, depending on which formats of documentation were installed and configured by your system administrator. See “Information to enter during Abaqus/CAE installation,” Section 2.4.2 of the Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide, and “Configuration of documentation application” below. The documentation collection page lists the book titles grouped by category.

2. Click the title of a book to display it.

In the HTML documentation, each book opens in a new browser window or tab. The book window contains four HTML frames: the navigation frame (top frame), the expand/collapse frame (upper left frame), the table of contents frame (lower left frame), and the text frame (right frame).

3. Navigate and search the book’s content.

• In the HTML documentation, use any of the following methods:

– Use the buttons in the expand/collapse frame to vary the level of detail displayed in the table of contents frame.   
– Use the back and forward arrows in the text frame to navigate sequentially through the text. You can also use the web browser functions to return to recently viewed pages.   
– Expand the topic headings in the table of contents by clicking the book icon to the left of the heading. To jump directly to a section whose title is displayed in the table of contents, click that title.   
– Use the search panel located in the navigation frame to search for specific words or phrases.

• In the PDF documentation, use the standard controls in Adobe Acrobat Reader to navigate and search the books.

For more detailed information on viewing and searching the HTML or PDF documentation, refer to Using Abaqus Online Documentation.

# Configuration of documentation application

The abaqus doc command locates a web browser executable or the Adobe Acrobat Reader executable depending on which documentation format was installed and configured by your system administrator.

# Configuration of web browser

If the HTML documentation was installed and configured by your system administrator, the abaqus doc command will locate a web browser executable as follows:

• Windows platforms: The abaqus doc command uses your default web browser.   
• Linux platforms: The abaqus doc command searches the system path for Firefox. If the help system cannot find Firefox, an error is displayed.

The browser\_type and browser\_path variables can be set in the Abaqus environment file to modify the behavior of this command. For more information, see “System customization parameters,” Section 4.1.5 of the Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide.

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# Configuration of PDF reader executable

If the PDF documentation was installed and configured by your system administrator, the abaqus doc command will locate the Adobe Acrobat Reader executable as follows:

• Windows platforms: The abaqus doc command uses the default installed Acrobat Reader.   
• Linux platforms: The abaqus doc command searches the system path for the acroread executable. You can also set the doc\_resource variable (in the Abaqus environment file) to the path of the acroread executable. For more information, see “System customization parameters,” Section 4.1.5 of the Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide.

# Command summary

abaqus doc

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# 3.2.13 LICENSING UTILITIES

Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit Abaqus/CFD

# Reference

• “Execution procedure for Abaqus: overview,” Section 3.1.1

# Overview

The abaqus licensing utilities provide management and monitoring tools for both types of Abaqus licensing: FLEXnet and Dassault Systèmes licensing. Executing the abaqus licensing command without additional arguments displays a command usage summary of all available utilities.

For a detailed description of all of the FLEXnet Licensing utilities, refer to the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 11.6.1. You can download this document from the Licensing section of the Support page at www.3ds.com/simulia. Several of the most useful licensing utilities are listed in the command summary below.

For more information, see Chapter 3, “Abaqus licensing,” of the Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide.

Command summary 

<table><tr><td>abaqus licensing</td><td>[lmstat | lmdiag | lmpath | lmtools | dslsstat | reporttool]</td></tr><tr><td>Command line options</td><td></td></tr></table>

# lmstat

This option displays information about the location and features served by the FLEXnet Licensing servers used to serve the Abaqus license. Additional arguments may be used with this command to generate more license usage information.

# lmdiag

This option displays information relating to the various FLEXnet Licensing features and indicates whether or not the feature may be checked out.

# lmpath

This option can be used to control where Abaqus looks for licenses. Additional arguments are used to print, set, or add license location information. Running the command without arguments will display the command summary for each action.

# lmtools

This option starts the FLEXnet Licensing toolchest on Windows platforms. This application can be used to invoke most FLEXnet Licensing administration tool functions.

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# dslsstat

This option displays information about the location and features served by the Dassault Systèmes license server (DSLS). See “Using the dslsstat utility for a Dassault Systèmes license server,” Section 3.9 of the Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide, for more information.

# reporttool

This option is used to generate reports from license usage history. See “Using the reporttool utility,” Section 3.10 of the Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide, for more information.

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# 3.2.14 ASCII TRANSLATION OF RESULTS (.FIL) FILES

Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit

# Reference

• “Execution procedure for Abaqus: overview,” Section 3.1.1

# Overview

The abaqus ascfil translation facility:

• is provided to convert results (.fil) files (produced by an Abaqus analysis) to ASCII format for porting between dissimilar operating systems;   
• permits the movement of results data to a different system for postprocessing; and   
• can also be used to convert a results file in ASCII format to binary format to save disk space.

# Command summary

abaqus ascfil

job=job-name [input=input-file]

# Command line options

# job

This option specifies the input and output file names to use during results file translation. The job-name value is used as the default input file name. The translated output file will have the name job-name.fin.

If the input file is in binary format (default), this utility will create the job-name.fin file in ASCII format. To transfer the results file back to binary format after porting to a dissimilar operating system, rename the job-name.fin file to job-name.fil, and use this utility again; the resulting job-name.fin file will be in binary format.

If this option is omitted from the command line, you will be prompted for this value.

# input

This option specifies the name of the input file if it is different from job-name.

# Example

To convert the results file c4.fil from binary to ASCII format, use the following command:

abaqus ascfil job=c4

The translated file will have the name c4.fin.

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# 3.2.15 JOINING RESULTS (.FIL) FILES

Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit

# Reference

• “Execution procedure for Abaqus: overview,” Section 3.1.1

# Overview

The abaqus append postprocessing facility:

• is provided to join results (.fil) files into a single file;   
• permits two results files that may be either ASCII or binary files, or a combination of ASCII and binary, to be joined for further postprocessing; and   
• will write a results file in the same format as the file specified with the oldjob option.

A similar utility, abaqus restartjoin, is used to join output database (.odb) files. See “Joining output database (.odb) files from restarted analyses,” Section 3.2.23, for details.

# Command summary

abaqus append

```gitattributes
job=job-name
oldjob=oldjob-name
input=input-file 
```

# Command line options

# job

This option specifies the output file name to use during execution. The job-name value is used as the output file name. The joined output file will have the name job-name.fil.

If this option is omitted from the command line, you will be prompted for this value.

# oldjob

This option specifies the name of the first results file to use during execution. The oldjob-name value is used as the results file name.

If this option is omitted from the command line, you will be prompted for this value.

# input

This option specifies the name of the second results file to use during execution. The input-file results file will be appended to the oldjob-name results file.

If this option is omitted from the command line, you will be prompted for this value.

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# Example

The following command will append the history contents of the fjoin003.fil results file to the end of the fjoin002.fil results file and create the file fjoin001.fil:

abaqus append job=fjoin001 oldjob=fjoin002 input=fjoin003
