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Abaqus SCRIPTING INTERFACE EXAMPLES
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Abaqus Scripting Interface examples
The Abaqus/CAE example scripts in this chapter illustrate the following:
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How you can use commands from the Abaqus Scripting Interface to create a simple model, submit
it for analysis, and view the results. “Reproducing the cantilever beam tutorial,” Section 8.1,
uses Abaqus Scripting Interface commands to reproduce the cantilever beam tutorial described in
Appendix B, “Creating and Analyzing a Simple Model in Abaqus/CAE,” of Getting Started with
Abaqus: Interactive Edition.
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How you can use the Abaqus Scripting Interface to control the output from the Visualization module
in Abaqus/CAE (Abaqus/Viewer).
– “Opening the tutorial output database,” Section 8.2.1, explains how to use abaqus fetch to
retrieve the Abaqus/CAE tutorial output database.
– “Opening an output database and displaying a contour plot,” Section 8.2.2, explains how to
open the tutorial output database, display a contour plot, and print the resulting viewport to a
file.
– “Printing a contour plot at the end of each step,” Section 8.2.3, explains how to open the tutorial
output database, customize the legend, display a contour plot at the end of each step, and print
the resulting viewports to a file.
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How you can introduce more complex programming techniques into your Abaqus Scripting
Interface scripts. “Investigating the skew sensitivity of shell elements,” Section 8.3, reproduces the
problem found in “Skew sensitivity of shell elements,” Section 2.3.4 of the Abaqus Benchmarks
Manual. You use Abaqus/CAE to create the model, and you use Abaqus Scripting Interface
commands to parameterize an evaluation of the model by changing its geometry and element type.
The example investigates the sensitivity of the shell elements in Abaqus to skew distortion when
they are used as thin plates.
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How you can use functions available in the caePrefsAccess module to edit the display
preferences and GUI settings in the abaqus_v6.11.gpr file. “Editing display preferences and
GUI settings,” Section 8.4, describes how to query for and set several default display and GUI
behaviors in Abaqus/CAE.
The example scripts from this manual can be copied to the user’s working directory by using the
Abaqus fetch utility:
abaqus fetch job=scriptName
where scriptName.py is the name of the script (see “Fetching sample input files,” Section 3.2.13 of the
Abaqus Analysis User’s Manual).
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