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1. To access the Abaqus HTML documentation from the Start menu see the instructions in Setting the documentation URL in the documentation htm file Section C 1 2 APPENDIX C CONFIGURING Abaqus DOCUMENTATION C 1 2 Setting the documentation URL in the documentation htm file After you configure an existing non Abaqus web server on Windows platforms you can modify the following file to access the Abaqus HTML documentation from the Start menu simulia_dir Documentation installation_info v6 10ef documentation htm where simulia_dir refers to the HTML documentation installation parent directory The line in the documentation htm file should have the following form lt META HTTP EQUIV Refresh CONTENT 0 URL http computername port_number v6 10e gt where computername is the fully qualified domain name of your web server and port_number is the port number that your web server is running on port_number needs to be specified only if your web server is not running on the default port of 80 For example a valid parameter definition is lt META HTTP EQUIV Refresh CONTENT 0 URL http velouria xyz com 2080 v6 10ef gt C 2 Setting the documentation URL after installation If you install Abaqus products before installing Abaqus HTML documentation or if you do not specify the URL for HTML documentation during the product installation you must add the URL to the abaqus_v6 env and url js files C 2 1 Setting the d
2. The log files are helpful for troubleshooting problems and they should not be removed For more information on accessing and using the Abaqus HTML documentation see Abaqus documentation INSTALLING Abaqus Section 3 2 7 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual and the online book Using Abaqus Online Documentation 2 2 2 Repeating documentation installations on multiple computers When you install documentation a file called installer properties is created in the simulia_dir Documentation installation_info v6 10ef directory This file called the replay file contains information that was used during the documentation installation such as the installation directory and web server configuration The replay command option is available to repeat a previous installation on identical platforms without reentering the same information for each installation You can use this option to perform a silent installation no graphical user interface is displayed It performs an installation identical to the previous installation same installation directory same configuration etc using information stored in the replay file The information that was entered for the first installation must be valid for subsequent installations that use the replay option All installation error checking is skipped when this option is used You should make sure that the system meets the requirements as specified in Appendix A System requirements and that you h
3. Access the Abaqus HTML documentation with the following URL http computername port_number v6 10ef where computername is the fully qualified domain name of your web server and port_number is the port number that your web server is running on port_number needs to be specified only if your web server is not running on the default port of 80 Windows platforms 1 Install the Abaqus HTML documentation in the SIMULIA parent directory The recommended location for the SIMULIA parent directory is C SIMULIA Create an alias in your web server s configuration file for the root directory of the HTML documentation For example on an Apache web server you must add Alias v6 10ef simulia_dir Documentation docs v6 10ef where simulia_dir refers to the HTML documentation installation parent directory Create an alias in your web server s configuration file for the Texis executable For example on an Apache web server you must add ScriptAlias texis simulia_dir Documentation scripts texis exe Restart your web server to reread the web server s configuration file Access the Abaqus HTML documentation with the following URL http computername port_number v6 10ef where computername is the fully qualified domain name of your web server and port_number is the port number that your web server is running on port_number needs to be specified only if your web server is not running on the default port of 80
4. In general you should use the default values for most of the parameters However Abaqus provides the capability to modify parameters to fix the following specific problems e The hardwareAcceleration parameter controls a number of different graphics tuning parameters and generally should not be modified Hardware acceleration options are discussed in Hardware acceleration all platforms Section 5 1 1 e The hardwareOverlay parameter is controlled by the hardwareOverlayAvailable parameter If your system supports hardware overlay planes Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer will use them by default If your system supports hardware overlay planes but viewports display a solid color and will not display a model you may need to manually set hardwareOverlay OFF e Some graphics adapters do not support the use of textures to generate contour plots properly If you experience problems displaying contour plots for example all contours appear gray or the system aborts you need to set fextureMapping OFF to emulate texture mapping in software Similarly if you experience problems printing contour plots you need to set printTextureMapping OFF e Some graphics adapters do not fully support the use of vertex arrays to process information about vertices Some specific problems indicate that vertex arrays are not fully supported when you drag a CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer the radius of a circle in the Sketcher the circle is not visible
5. Installation and Licensing Guide SIMULIA Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide Legal Notices CAUTION This documentation is intended for qualified users who will exercise sound engineering judgment and expertise in the use of the Abaqus Software The Abaqus Software is inherently complex and the examples and procedures in this documentation are not intended to be exhaustive or to apply to any particular situation Users are cautioned to satisfy themselves as to the accuracy and results of their analyses Dassault Syst mes and its subsidiaries including Dassault Syst mes Simulia Corp shall not be responsible for the accuracy or usefulness of any analysis performed using the Abaqus Software or the procedures examples or explanations in this documentation Dassault Syst mes and its subsidiaries shall not be responsible for the consequences of any errors or omissions that may appear in this documentation The Abaqus Software is available only under license from Dassault Syst mes or its subsidiary and may be used or reproduced only in accordance with the terms of such license This documentation is subject to the terms and conditions of either the software license agreement signed by the parties or absent such an agreement the then current software license agreement to which the documentation relates This documentation and the software described in this documentation are subject to change without prior notice No part of th
6. id Run who command pipe the output and read into a list whopipe os popen who r output whopipe readlines whopipe close Find out if the user is logged in no loggedin terminal for line in output columns re split line Split into blank separated columns name columns 0 User name is in the first column if name userName terminal append columns 1 Terminal at which user is logged in loggediIn yes Use write command if the user is logged in use mail otherwise if loggedIn no logFile savedir id log if os path exists logFile os system cat s Mail s s s logFile msg userName else os system Mail s s s msg userName else for termNum in terminal os system echo s write s s msg userName termNum Customizing Abaqus CAE startup The following example for the onCaeStartup parameter will establish viewport preferences and print options including a print command set up a remote execution queue for running Abaqus jobs and set preferences for contour plots in the Visualization module def onCaeStartup Print preferences session printOptions setValues vpDecorations OFF 4 24 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT vpBackground OFF rendition COLOR printCommand lpr S server P printer session psOptions setValues date OFF logo OFF def initQueues args session Queue name ong ho
7. The job name from the job command line option The token is substituted by the full path to the Python executable The full path to the output directory List of names for batch commands typically used for submitting jobs to queues other than the default defined by queue_cmd Then elsewhere in the environment file each of these command aliases must appear on the left side of the equal sign with the desired command string on the right This command string has the same format as the queue_cmd parameter It can use the replaceable placemarkers in its construction as long as the final result is a valid system command queue_prefix Optional prefix to be output as part of the submit command when a queue name is specified The default value is an empty string 4 1 9 Job variables The following variables can be used in an onJobStartup or onJobCompletion function id The job identifier specified as the value of the job option on the command line savedir The path name to the directory from which the job was submitted 4 17 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT scrdir The path name to the scratch directory analysisType The type of analysis to be executed Possible values are EXPLICIT and STANDARD In addition for an MPI based parallel job the following variables are available in an onJobStartup or onJobCompletion function host_list List of host machine names that were used for the analysis including the number o
8. and PDF documentation If you want to access the HTML documentation from the Start menu Windows platforms only you must modify the documentation htm file after you configure the server see Setting the documentation URL in the documentation htm file Section C 1 2 C 1 1 Configuring an existing non Abaqus web server You can configure an existing non Abaqus web server to access the Abaqus HTML documentation using the following procedures For the latest information about non Abaqus web server configurations refer to Answer 1433 in the SIMULIA Online Support System the SIMULIA Online Support System is accessible through the My Support page at www simulia com UNIX and Linux platforms 1 Install the Abaqus HTML documentation in the SIMULIA parent directory see Installation procedures Section 2 1 2 Create an alias in your web server s configuration file for the root directory of the HTML documentation For example on an Apache web server you must add 5 APPENDIX C CONFIGURING Abaqus DOCUMENTATION Alias v6 10ef simulia dir Documentation docs v6 10ef where simulia dir refers to the HTML documentation installation parent directory Create an alias in your web server s configuration file for the Texis executable For example on an Apache web server you must add ScriptAlias texis simulia_dir Documentation scripts texis Restart your web server to reread the web server s configuration file
9. be sure to end the lmgrd process first then all the vendor daemon processes To stop and restart a single vendor daemon use lmdown vendor vendor then use lmreread vendor vendor to restart the vendor daemon see Imreread Section 3 6 6 When shutting down a three server redundant license server there is a one minute delay before the servers shut down lmdown shuts down all three license servers of a set of redundant license servers If you need to shut down one of a set of redundant license servers not recommended because if either of the remaining machines becomes unavailable the license server will stop serving licenses you must kill both the lmgrd and vendor daemon processes on that license server machine To use LMTOOLS Windows platforms to run 1mdown 1 From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Licensing utilities 2 Verify that Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page and select the Start Stop Reread tab 3 Click Stop Server Abaqus LICENSING 3 6 3 Imhostid The lmhostid tool returns the FLEXnet Licensing host id of the current platform Syntax and Options 1lmhostid n n Only the host id is returned as a string which is appropriate to use with HOSTID in the license file Header text is suppressed Example The following is an example of lmhostid output lmutil Copyright c 1989 2008 Acresso Software The FLEXl1m host ID of this machine is 6902
10. for more information Note The lmremove tool does not free licenses for use by other jobs To temporarily free a license for use by another job a running analysis job can be suspended using the Abaqus suspend utility refer to Job execution control Section 3 2 29 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual for details A running analysis job can be terminated using the Abaqus terminate utility or the appropriate operating system utility to stop the executable for the analysis job For an example of using the Lmremove tool see Imstat Section 3 6 7 Syntax and Options lmremove c license_file_list feature user user_host display or lmremove c license _file_list h feature server_host port handle c license file list Specifies the license files feature Name of the feature checked out by the user user Name of the user whose license you are removing as reported by lmstat a user_host Name of the host the user is logged on to as reported by lmstat a display Name of the display where the user is working as reported by lmstat a server_host Name of the host on which the license server is running as reported by lmstat a port TCP IP port number where the license server is running as reported by lmstat a handle License handle as reported by lmstat a The lmremove tool removes all instances of user on user_host and display from usage of feature If the ce license file list option is spec
11. functionality The commands and options used to install documentation are described below For more details about the documentation installation options see Abaqus documentation installation details Section 2 2 To install Abaqus documentation 1 From the SIMULIA parent directory execute the following command or use the following option UNIX and Linux platforms doc_dir setup replay full path to replay file where doc _dir is the directory used when the Documentation DVD was mounted or where the documentation installation files reside Windows platforms e From the startup screen select Install Abaqus Documentation INSTALLING Abaqus e From the command line type doc_drive setup exe replay full path_to_replay file where doc_drive is the DVD ROM drive that contains the Documentation DVD Command option replay full path_to replay file Use this option to perform additional identical documentation installations without having to reenter the same information for each installation For more information see Repeating documentation installations on multiple computers Section 2 2 2 2 Follow the instructions in the dialog boxes that appear to complete the installation Choose which formats of documentation to install e HTML and PDF e PDF only 3 If you installed the HTML and PDF format and selected the Abaqus web server or no web server option you are provided with a URL that points to your HTML d
12. when you display an X Y plot the axis labels are not visible and some facets in the shaded display of a mesh are missing If you experience any of these problems set vertexArraysInDisplayLists OFF If this does not resolve the problem suppress the use of vertex arrays altogether by setting vertexArrays OFF e The backfaceCulling parameter controls the display of facets that are determined to be facing away from the viewer If the front sides of elements appear to be missing in the display or if the display is incomplete set backfaceCulling OFF e You can disable direct rendering set directRendering OFF for Linux systems that do not behave correctly when accessing the graphics hardware directly e You can disable hardware accelerated off screen rendering set accelerateOffScreen OFF when you want printed images to be rendered without OpenGL hardware acceleration or if you experience problems with the Probe functionality in the Visualization module of Abaqus CAE Abaqus Viewer e You can disable the backing store set backingStore OFF when you want to conserve memory When accelerateOffScreen ON the memory for the backing store is allocated from memory on the graphics card When OFF the memory for backing store is allocated from system memory The backing store is generated by rendering the viewport to an off screen area Subsequent viewport refreshes are performed more quickly by copying the off screen area to the viewport window Even
13. 1 can be used to manually generate license usage reports for a specified range of dates e The scheduled license reporting utility schLicRpt described in Scheduling automated license usage reporting Section 3 8 2 can be used to set up automated license usage reports on a monthly or quarterly basis 3 19 Abaqus LICENSING The license usage reporting utilities use information from the FLEXnet debug log file You can ensure that this log is created by including the 1 option when starting the license server using lmgrd see FLEXnet license server manager Imgrd Section 3 5 To subtotal reports according to user location you must set the computer_location environment file parameter More details about the environment file parameters can be found in License management parameters Section 4 1 6 3 8 1 Manually creating license usage reports The usage utility allows you to generate CSV formatted reports detailing the usage of Abaqus licenses Two types of usage reports are generated summary usage reports and daily usage reports Summary usage reports provide usage information for each Abaqus license feature subtotaled by user location or individual user Summary usage reports list the total number of licenses requested number of licenses granted number of licenses denied and total hours of license usage within a specified period Daily usage reports list the peak and average number of analysis and Abaqus CAE license tokens c
14. 2 From the Display Properties dialog box that appears select Appearance and click Effects 3 In the Effects dialog box toggle off Show window contents while dragging 4 Click OK to save your settings and to close the Display Properties dialog box To change the colors and fonts used in Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer You can change the colors and fonts displayed in Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer by applying a new color scheme to your session Color schemes determine the colors and text settings that Windows uses to display each component in an application such as its menus dialog boxes and title bar For example when the Windows Standard color scheme is selected Windows displays white text in Tahoma font against a blue background in the title bar and displays black text in Tahoma font on a white background in application menus You can also customize a color scheme by editing the color or text settings for any individual item in the color scheme This customization enables you to change more specific settings like increasing the text size in the title bar without changing the text size in other areas of the application Changes to the color and font settings affect all applications not just Abaqus programs Menu items may vary depending upon your Windows operating system For Windows XP operating systems 1 Select Start Settings Control Panel and double click Display 2 From the Display Properties dialog box that appears select Appe
15. 500 queues a1500M LSF_ResvQueue name a1500M memReserve 1500 queues a3000M LSF_ResvQueue name a3000M memReserve 3000 queues a6000M LSF_ResvQueue name a6000M memReserve 6000 4 3 7 Defining a string based analysis batch queue The following example illustrates the use of the environment file parameters for string based analysis batch queue definition try queue_name list queue_name except queue name queue _name queue_ name aba_short aba_long hold after _prefix a queue _prefix q queue_cmd qsub nr me P Q A T x eo o L S aba_short qsub nr me q short A T x eo o L S aba_long qsub nr me q long A T x eo o L S hold printf Job S not submitted n 4 28 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT The qsub command used in this example is available only on certain computer systems Other commands such as at and batch can be used to configure a queuing system on most UNIX platforms Please refer to your system documentation or contact your hardware vendor for information about queuing systems for your platform If the queue specified by the queue command line option matches one of the queue aliases in the queue_name parameter that queue command is used in place of the default command queue_cmd The following are legal command line options for the above example abaqus job qt queue normal abaqus job qt queue aba_ short after 10 00 abaqus job qt queue
16. ENVIRONMENT the submit method If the job name com file cannot be written in the current working directory a FileCreationError exception is raised The following argument is required options A dictionary containing the analysis options getDriverName This method returns the name of the command used to invoke the Abaqus execution procedure getPython This method returns the absolute path to the Abaqus Python interpreter as a string getNumRequiredTokens This method returns the number of license tokens required for an analysis as an integer The following argument is required options A dictionary containing the analysis options spawn This method executes a command in a new process waits for it to complete and returns an integer representing the exit status of the command If the command cannot be executed a SpawnError exception is raised The following arguments are required cmd A valid command string to be executed in the new process If analyses are submitted to this queue from Abaqus CAE the command must return the status immediately otherwise the ability to monitor the progress of the analysis jobs in Abaqus CAE may fail Examples of commands that return the status immediately are qsub bsub at batch etc env A dictionary of environment variables available to the process The following argument is optional verbose A Boolean specifying whether the command string is printed to stdout The defaul
17. Licensing End User Guide and to see if a maintenance delivery includes a later version of FLEXnet Licensing Special situations This section addresses questions concerning special operations that usually occur infrequently F 4 F 3 1 APPENDIX F TROUBLESHOOTING Abaqus NETWORK LICENSING How do we add redundant servers if our network has a single license server You need to decide which other computers you wish to use as redundant license servers The total number of redundant license servers is three and reliable communication must be maintained at all times between the master server and at least one other backup server shadow for licensing to operate The three server hosts must be on the same subnet F 3 2 1 Send the Imhostid for all three license server hosts to your local office or representative and request a license file for redundant servers Install the redundant license file and start the Abaqus license server manually as described in Redundant license server configurations Section 3 4 For each installation of Abaqus edit the Abaqus environment file abaqus_v6 env so that the line abaquslm_ license _file port license_server_host becomes abaquslm_ license _file port serverhostl port serverhost2 port serverhost3 where serverhost1 serverhost2 and serverhost3 are the names of the computers where the license servers are running quotes are required If a license server is
18. My Support page at www simulia com The disk space used for installation will be charged against the account of the owner of the Abaqus installation directory Administrator privileges are required on Windows platforms for all installation activities A complete Abaqus installation consists of three procedures You should perform the installation procedures in the following order 1 Abaqus documentation 2 Abaqus licensing 3 Abaqus products Abaqus documentation should be installed on at least one computer on your network Abaqus documentation should be installed before licensing and products because the product installation procedure uses the documentation URL to configure network access to the online documentation You must have an Abaqus 6 10 license file to install Abaqus licensing and start the license server A new license file is required for each new general release and this license file allows you to run subsequent 2 1 INSTALLING Abaqus Abaqus 6 10 maintenance deliveries extended functionality releases and previous releases dating back to Abaqus 6 2 7 For example a new license file is required for Abaqus 6 10 1 and this license file can be used to run all Abaqus 6 10 maintenance deliveries Abaqus 6 10 2 Abaqus 6 10 3 etc all Abaqus 6 10 Extended Functionality releases Abaqus 6 10 EF1 Abaqus 6 10 EF2 etc and any earlier releases of Abaqus Abaqus 6 9 Abaqus 6 8 etc still installed on your network To request
19. OOOO OOO OE OE OE OOOO OE OE OEE OE OOOO def _ repr__ self return Submits to LSF s queue run bqueues 1 s for description self name self name fern wn ran nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn nA RANA ARR RRR A AS Ae def submit self options env job options job verbose options get verbose 0 queue self name cpus options get cpus 1 if self cpusReserve cpus self cpusReserve resLst license reservation For the following line to work LSF must be configured with a static or dynamic resource called abqtokens 4 27 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT F aoaaa a n naa Aan OP OL OT UD UTE OT UT UE OTT ARAN ASA A EEN NENAS A A NAIN NE DS N S NS AN NNN EAS A resLst append abqtokens d self getNumRequiredTokens options memory reservation if self memReserve from math import ceil resLst append mem d int ceil self memReserve float cpus resStr if resLst import string resStr R rusage s string join resLst bsub bsub q s J s n s o s log N s s python s com queue job cpus job resStr self getDriverName job return self spawn bsub env verbose queue definitions queues default NiceQueue queues hold HoldQueue queues benchmark LSF_ResvQueue name benchmark cpusReserve 16 queues dedicated LSF_ResvQueue name dedicated queues a500M LSF_ResvQueue name a500M memReserve
20. Perform Status Enquiry Installing licensing as a Windows service You must be logged in as Administrator to install licensing as a Windows service You use the installation procedure to install the licensing administration tools You must use the following procedure to install and start the service 1 To access LMTOOLS from the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Licensing utilities Verify that Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page and select the Config Services tab 3 In the Service Name text field type Abaqus FLEXnet License Manager 4 Specify the paths to the lmgrd exe file the license file and the debug log file as shown in Figure 3 1 Toggle on Use Services Start Server at Power Up becomes available 6 Toggle on Start Server at Power Up and click Save Service 7 Select the Start Stop Reread tab and click Start Server 8 From the main menu bar select File Exit to close the dialog box Abaqus LICENSING ix Fie Edit Mode Help Service License File System Settings Utilities Start Stop Reread Server Status Server Diags Config Services Borrowing Save Service Remove Service Configure Service Service Name Abaqus FLEXnet License Manager Path to the Imard exe file _ C SIMULIA License Imgrd exe _ Browse Path to the license file C SIMULIA License abaqusim lic Bowe Path to the debug log file CASIMULIA License
21. S marley P hp3 session psOptions setValues date OFF Job preferences def setJobPreferences module userData session Queue name long hostName server queueName large directory tmp addImportCallback job setJobPreferences Visualization preferences def setVisPreferences module userData session defaultOdbDisplay contourOptions setValues renderStyle SHADED visibleEdges EXTERIOR contourStyle CONTINUOUS addImportCallback visualization setVisPreferences The default compile and link environment variables for your computer have also been inserted in your site environment file 4 3 2 Notifying users when a job is completed The following is an example of how environment file commands can be used to notify UNIX system users when their job is finished The notification method used depends on how the job was run and if the user is logged in If the job was run interactively the user will not be notified that the job has finished If the user is still logged in when the job completes a message will be output to the screen If the user has logged out by the time the job completes a message will be mailed to the user The syntax of the mail command varies from system to system Please consult your system documentation to determine the appropriate commands def onJobCompletion import os re 4 23 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT 4 3 3 userName os environ USER msg Job s has completed
22. TEMP environment variable or TEMP if TEMPS is not defined During the analysis a subdirectory will be created under this directory to hold the analysis scratch files The name of the subdirectory is constructed from the user s user name the job ID and the job s process number The subdirectory and its contents are deleted upon completion of the analysis memory Maximum amount of memory or maximum percentage of the physical memory that can be allocated during the input file preprocessing and during the Abaqus Standard analysis phase The default value is different on different platforms for details refer to the SIMULIA Online Support System which is accessible from the My Support page at www simulia com 4 1 2 Parallelization parameters Parallelization in Abaqus Standard is discussed in detail in Parallel execution in Abaqus Standard Section 3 5 2 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual Parallelization in Abaqus Explicit is discussed in detail in Parallel execution in Abaqus Explicit Section 3 5 3 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual The relevant parameters are listed here auto_convert If this parameter is set equal to ON and an Abaqus Explicit analysis is run in parallel with parallel domain the convert select convert state and convert odb options will be run automatically at the end of the analysis if required The default value is ON cpus Number of processors to use during an analysis run if parallel proce
23. The Abaqus Windows client installer will also install most of the required libraries see Client installation for Windows Section 2 4 4 for details APPENDIX A SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS The latest information on supported platforms MPI versions and availability can be found under the System Information section of the Support page at www simulia com For information about configuring and using MPI based parallelization with Abaqus refer to the SIMULIA Online Support System which is available from the My Support page at www simulia com A 7 3Dconnexion motion controllers If you are using any of the 3Dconnexion motion controllers with Abaqus CAE you must have Version 4 0 or later of the 3DxWare device drivers For more information see the 3Dconnexion web site www 3dconnexion com Appendix B APPENDIX B Abaqus RELEASE DIRECTORIES AND FILES Abaqus release directories and files The Abaqus directory structure is designed to facilitate multiple releases of Abaqus as well as other SIMULIA products The directory structure for Abaqus 6 10 is different from the structure used in previous releases of Abaqus for details see Directory structure for Abaqus 6 7 and earlier Section B 3 B 1 The SIMULIA parent directory All files associated with Abaqus licensing and documentation installations are stored in the SIMULIA parent directory It is recommended that Abaqus products are also installed within the SIMULIA parent directory
24. The required format is one of the following e For HTML documentation with a web server http computername port_number v6 10e e For HTML documentation with no web server file simulia_dir Documentation docs v6 10ef index html e For PDF only documentation or if HTML and PDF were both installed but you prefer PDF only the path to the installation base directory is required simulia_dir Setting doc_root to this file path and setting doc_root_type to pdf will configure the abaqus doc command to open PDF rather than HTML documentation 4 12 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT doc_root_type The documentation formats specified by the doc_root parameter Set to the string value htm1 the default for an installation of HTML and PDF or set to the string value pdf for PDF only or if PDF is preferred over HTML These values must be lowercase doc_resource Full path to the Adobe Acrobat Reader executable acroread on UNIX and Linux platforms The value of this parameter must be a string Setting this parameter allows the abaqus doc command to open PDF rather than HTML documentation The following parameters disallow the execution of the corresponding modules prior to testing for license activation through the startup file They can be used to provide friendly messages if an attempt is made to execute an analysis module for which your site does not have a license Use these parameters in conjunction with
25. The suggested name for the SIMULIA parent directory is SIMULIA throughout this manual the SIMULIA parent directory is referred to as simulia_dir in path listings The following directories will be created under simulia_dir depending on which of the installation options are chosen License Documentation Default directory for all the files associated with licensing license file server log file and license options file installation_info Directory containing the license startup command and log files from the licensing installation procedure and Windows uninstaller if used Default directory for all files associated with documentation installation_info Directory containing the command to restart the web server and log files from the documentation installation procedure and Windows uninstaller if used docs Directory containing release specific book files for an HTML plus PDF documentation installation pdf docs Directory containing release specific book files for a PDF only documentation installation An illustration of the SIMULIA parent directory structure is shown in Figure B 1 B 2 The Abaqus parent directory All files associated with an Abaqus product installation are stored in the Abaqus parent directory It is recommended that the Abaqus parent directory be located within the SIMULIA parent directory and the suggested path is SIMULIA Abaqus see Figure B 1 Throughout this manual the Abaqus parent directory is
26. To run the verification procedure on Windows platforms 1 From the taskbar click Start 2 From the menu select Programs Abaqus release Verification where release corresponds to the release you wish to verify This procedure attempts to verify all licensed products Use the command line option to verify individual products E 3 APPENDIX E VERIFICATION PROCEDURE Reviewing and resolving verification procedure failures If the verification procedure finishes successfully all files and the verify directory are removed unless you use the retainFiles option Error diagnostics for all products that fail verification remain in the verify directory It is very important that you review these error messages The following suggestions may help you to correct common installation errors that cause the verification procedure to fail e Make sure that the license file was installed properly If there are problems with the license file error messages will be written to standard output e Make sure that you have not tried to execute Abaqus products for which you are not licensed e Make sure that the operating system and compiler level are consistent with those specified for this release under System Information on the Support page at www simulia com If the error messages and these suggestions are insufficient to verify the installation check for installation information available on www simulia com Installation problems and resolut
27. Upgrading a license server and administration tools Redundant license server configurations FLEXnet license server manager Imgrd FLEXnet Licensing administration tools Using the options file Reporting license usage data 4 Customizing the Abaqus environment Using the Abaqus environment file Defining analysis batch queues Examples 5 Customizing Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer Customizing the user interface Configuring printers Tuning graphics cards A System requirements Software Disk space Memory Graphics Compilers CONTENTS 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 3 6 3 7 3 8 4 1 4 2 4 3 5 1 5 2 5 3 A l A 2 A 3 A 4 A S CONTENTS MPI 3Dconnexion motion controllers Abaqus release directories and files The SIMULIA parent directory The Abaqus parent directory Directory structure for Abaqus 6 7 and earlier Configuring Abaqus documentation Using an existing non Abaqus web server Setting the documentation URL after installation Accessing remote file systems for installation and execution Accessing the installation files from a remotely mounted DVD Running Abaqus remotely Using a network ODB connector Verification procedure Troubleshooting Abaqus network licensing General questions License server operation Special situations Other licensing questions and problems vi A 6 A 7 B 1 B 2 B 3 C 1 C 2 D 1 D 2 D 3 Fil F2 F 3 F 4 OVERVIEW Overv
28. _drive setup exe replay full _path_to_replay file sysinfo nosystemchecks help where prod_drive is the DVD ROM drive that contains the Licensing amp Products DVD You cannot use a Universal Naming Convention UNC path to run the command line installer Command options jre system path_to_jre Specify the Java Runtime Environment JRE to use for installation This option is not normally required as JREs for most supported platforms are included with the installation disk and used by default Specify the value system to use the system JRE if installed or specify the full path to a user defined JRE To use a system JRE the java command must be in your PATH environment variable and the JRE must be Version 1 5 or later crossplatform Install the Abaqus products for various platforms on a single file server using a single system to perform all of the installations You can install Abaqus for only one platform at a time When you are installing for a platform that is not the local platform pre installation system checks and post installation verification are not performed The verification procedure should be run manually once the user is logged on to the local INSTALLING Abaqus computer see Appendix E Verification procedure The crossplatform option can be used on platforms listed on the installation media replay full _path_to_replay_file Use this option to perform additional identical installations without havin
29. adams catiav4 catiav5 dcatiav5 ideas moldflow parasolid proe 5 APPENDIX E VERIFICATION PROCEDURE Verify Abaqus AMS Verify Abaqus CAE Verify Abaqus CFD Verify Abaqus Design Verify Abaqus Explicit Verify Abaqus Foundation Verify parametric studies in Abaqus Verify Abaqus Standard Verify Abaqus Explicit with user subroutines Required FORTRAN compiler and libraries must be installed Verify Abaqus Standard with user subroutines Required FORTRAN compiler and libraries must be installed Verify Abaqus Viewer Verify Abaqus Interface for MSC ADAMS Verify Geometry Translator for CATIA V4 Verify Geometry Translator for CATIA VS Verify Direct Geometry Import for CATIA V5 Direct Geometry Import is a component of the CATIA V5 Associative Interface Verifies geometry import capability in Abaqus CAE does not verify installation or functionality of the CATIA V5 Associative Interface plug in Verify Geometry Translator for I DEAS Verify Abaqus Interface for Moldflow Verify Geometry Translator for Parasolid Verify Geometry Translator for Pro ENGINEER the Geometry Translator is acomponent of the Pro ENGINEER Associative Interface Verifies geometry import capability in Abaqus CAE does not verify installation or functionality of the Pro ENGINEER Associative Interface plug in swi Additional options APPENDIX E VERIFICATION PROCEDURE Verify Geometry Translator for SolidWorks the Geometry Trans
30. an academic teaching license Abaqus will be configured to use this license by default see License management parameters Section 4 1 6 The URL for the Abaqus HTML documentation or path to the base installation directory simulia_dir under which the PDF documentation files are installed if only PDF was installed or if you prefer PDF over HTML Entering this path when the installer prompts you will configure the abaqus doc command to open PDF rather than HTML documentation See Abaqus documentation Section 3 2 7 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual for more information If you did not install the Abaqus HTML documentation before the products or if you do not specify the URL you must perform additional steps to provide access to the HTML documentation see Setting the documentation URL after installation Section C 2 The installation directory Specify the Abaqus parent directory referred to as abaqus_dir which is the location where all installed Abaqus releases will be stored The default location is the current working directory on UNIX and Linux platforms and C SIMULIA Abaqus on Windows platforms You should not install Abaqus in a directory that indicates a specific Abaqus release number the release specific directory will be created by the installer For example all files needed to run the initial extended functionality release for Abaqus 6 10 Abaqus 6 10 EF 1 will be installed in abaqus_dir 6 10 EF1 If you
31. and verification log files as well as the Windows uninstaller log file if used Directory containing input files and directories associated with the installed products including installation verification problems timing test problems files for the Introduction to Abaqus seminar files for the Getting Started tutorial manuals files for application briefs files used with the abaqus findkeyword utility and files from the Example Problems Benchmarks and Verification Manuals Directory containing site specific files the Abaqus environment file abaqus_v6 env a sample environment file abaqusinc env include files file _name inc a data file containing information used in the verification procedure chksum dat and the platform computer tables Directory containing example Python modules for Abaqus CAE plug ins This directory will not be installed on platforms that do not support Abaqus CAE Directory containing files used for context sensitive help in Abaqus CAE This directory will not be installed on platforms that do not support Abaqus CAE An illustration of the Abaqus parent directory structure is shown in Figure B 2 B 3 Directory structure for Abaqus 6 7 and earlier Releases of Abaqus prior to Abaqus 6 8 used a directory structure different than the one currently being used If the installation procedure detects an existing installation of Abaqus 6 7 or earlier the new release of Abaqus will be installed
32. and will affect all jobs submitted from the user s account On Windows platforms for Abaqus to locate the environment file in the user s home directory the full path to the user s home directory must be specified using the HOME environment variable or a combination of the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH environment variables The current working directory This environment file is optional and will affect all jobs submitted from the current working directory If the same parameter is defined in more than one environment file or is defined more than once within an environment file the last definition encountered will be used The environment file for the Abaqus 6 10 Extended Functionality release uses Python syntax See the Abaqus Scripting User s Manual for more detailed information on Python syntax The environment file for Abaqus 6 10 EF must be named abaqus_v6 env Attempting to use a Version 5 format environment file will cause errors Environment file entries have the following syntax parameter value All parameters must have a value The following syntactic rules also apply All parameters are case sensitive A string value must be enclosed in a pair of double or single quotes Comments are preceded by a number sign All characters following a number sign on a line are ignored Number signs within a quoted string are part of the string not the beginning of a comment Blank lines are ignored Lists must be enclosed
33. are installing Abaqus on a Windows mounted network drive to be run from client Windows computers you can enter a Universal Naming Convention UNC path as the target installation directory for example ComputerName SharedFolder path Microsoft UNC paths can be used instead of Windows mapped drive paths See Client installation for Windows Section 2 4 4 below for details about installing and running Abaqus as a Windows client The location of the Abaqus start in directory Windows platforms only Specify the location where user files created during Abaqus interactive sessions are stored and the home directory for the Abaqus command window The default location is C temp This can be changed by users later see Common customizations on Windows platforms Section 5 1 2 Ensure that the start in directory has write permission for all users If the installation program detects a wide area network WAN license file you will be prompted for information about the geographic location of your computer This information is used to automatically set the computer_location environment file parameter and enable license usage logging for report generation For more information see Reporting license usage data Section 3 8 INSTALLING Abaqus When the installation is complete a record of the installation and a listing of the licensed products is written to a file called Abaqus_release_InstallLog log in the abaqus_dir release inst
34. bin opera newwindow s 4 25 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT where usr local bin opera is the full path to the browser and the argument newwindow opens a new browser window using the full uniform resource locator URL to the Abaqus HTML documentation Use the argument newpage to open a new page The third example illustrates the parameter settings to specify the Konqueror browser not supported by Abaqus as the web browser browser_type CUSTOM_BROWSER browser path opt kde3 bin konqueror where opt kde3 bin konqueror is the full path to the browser By default a new browser window opens using the URL to the Abaqus HTML documentation 4 3 5 Using predefined derived classes The following example illustrates the instantiation of some predefined derived classes and their insertion into the queues dictionary run_mode BATCH from driverQueues import queues atq AtQueue queues batchq BatchQueue queues hold HoldQueue To submit an analysis using one of the queues specify the queue name as the value for the analysis execution procedure queue parameter 4 3 6 Deriving and using custom queue classes To derive a custom queue class the driverQueues module must be imported and the class must inherit directly or indirectly from the Queue class Derived queues must provide an implementation for the submit method Derived class methods can raise exceptions as needed The predefined Queue
35. box 6 Click OK to save your settings and to close the Display Properties dialog box To change the default fonts used in Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer By default Windows renders text in the Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer user interfaces by referring to the fonts available in your system fonts directory You can override this default behavior and use other fonts for your session by adding the parameter hks_font_path to your Abaqus environment file Set this parameter to multiple comma delimited values if you want to set up multiple font directories for your session To display Chinese characters in Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer You can enable a localized Chinese version of Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer This localized version displays Chinese characters for text in menus dialog boxes the Model and Results Trees and the message area text in the viewport is not localized Menu items may vary depending upon your Windows operating system For Windows XP operating systems a CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer 1 Set the regional language settings for Windows to enable Chinese characters a Select Start Settings Control Panel and double click Regional and Language Options The Regional and Language Options dialog box appears b On the Languages tabbed page ensure that the Install files for East Asian languages option is toggled on Ifthe East Asian languages are not installed you must have Administrator privileges to change
36. daemon use lmdown vendor vendor then use lmreread vendor vendor which restarts the vendor daemon Note If you use the c license file list option the license files specified are read by lmreread not by lmgrd lmgrd rereads the file it read originally To use LMTOOLS Windows platforms to run lmreread 1 From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Licensing utilities 2 Verify that Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page and select the Start Stop Reread tab 3 Select Abaqus FLEXnet License Manager and click ReRead License File 3 14 3 6 7 Abaqus LICENSING Imstat The lmstat tool helps you monitor the status of all network licensing activities including e Daemons that are running e License files e Users of individual features e Users of features served by a specific vendor daemon The 1lmstat tool prints information that it receives from the license server therefore it does not report on unserved licenses such as uncounted licenses To report on an uncounted license the license must be added to a served license file and the application must be directed to use the license server for that license file via host port host or USE_SERVER Queued users and licenses shared due to duplicate grouping are also not returned by lmstat Syntax and Options lmstat a c license file list feature i feature s server S vendor t timeou
37. directory and all subordinate files Your user account must have permission to delete the Abaqus release specific directory 1 Type the command cd abaqus_dir where abaqus_dir is the Abaqus parent directory 2 Change the permissions of the directories and files by entering the command chmod R 755 6 10 n where n refers to the update you wish to delete 3 Remove the release or maintenance delivery by typing the command rm rf 6 10 n where n refers to the update you wish to delete 4 Links to the uninstalled Abaqus release will no longer be valid You can remove an invalid link from the Commands directory by typing the command rm link where link refers to an invalid link name 2 21 INSTALLING Abaqus Alternatively you can remove the entire Commands directory from the Abaqus parent directory abaqus_dir by typing the command rm rf Commands 2 5 2 Windows platforms You can use the Windows uninstall shortcuts provided the Add or Remove Programs tool or the Abaqus silent uninstaller batch files to remove Abaqus licensing or products The silent uninstallers allow you to automate these tasks from another batch script file The silent uninstallers are available only on Windows platforms You must have Windows Administrator privileges to uninstall Abaqus components Both the Windows uninstall shortcuts and the silent uninstaller batch files generate a log file that you can review The log file indicates whether the uninstall
38. exchanged must be a valid command on the computer system where the shared library is linked This command can be either a string or a tuple of strings If the command is a tuple of strings each string must represent a single command line argument The values of the placemarkers are determined by the Abaqus execution procedure or by the command line options and cannot be modified by the user The values of the placemarkers replace the placemarkers in the link_sl string User specified external libraries can be linked with the usual link commands The following placemarkers are available F The name of the compiled object file U The name of the shared library A The name of the archive of compiled object files to be linked into the shared library B The name of the shared library of utility functions YE The name of the file containing the names of the symbols to be exported from the shared library L The list of directories containing shared libraries HP only 4 10 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT nodb_cache_limit Maximum size of the cache in the temporary file directory Abaqus CAE uses this cache for local data storage when you use a network ODB connector to read from a remote output database Set the nodb_cache_limit parameter to the number of megabytes to which the cache size will be limited The minimum value of nodb_cache_limit is 500 indicating that the cache size is limited to 500 MB If you set the maximum cache size
39. floating license smith watt watt v6 10 firestar 27000 101 start Tue 3 1 9 29 where smith user User name watt user_host Host where user is running watt display Display where user is running v6 10 release Release of feature firestar server_host Host where license server is running 27000 port Port on server_host where license server is running 101 handle License handle start Tue 3 1 9 29 checkout_time Time that this license was checked out Note The lmremove tool does not free licenses for use by other jobs see Imremove Section 3 6 5 for more information Abaqus LICENSING To use the lmremove tool to free the license for a job run by user smith you would use the command abaqus licensing lmremove cae smith watt watt where cae feature Name of the feature checked out by the user smith user Name of the user whose license you are removing as reported by lmstat a watt user_host Name of the host the user is logged into as reported by lmstat a watt display Name of the display where the user is working as reported by lmstat a To use LMTOOLS Windows platforms to run lmstat a 3 6 8 1 From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Licensing utilities 2 Verify that Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page and select the Server Status tab 3 Verify that Display Everything is enabled and click
40. guarantee compatibility of Abaqus with user subroutines written in programming languages other than FORTRAN User written postprocessing programs created with the abaqus make utility in Abaqus 6 10 EF should be compiled using the compiler for the program language and linked using a C compiler Therefore both a FORTRAN and C compiler are required for user written FORTRAN programs User written programs that were compiled and linked with the abaqus make utility in a previous release of Abaqus before Abaqus 6 10 and processing only the results 11 file can still be used with an Abaqus 6 10 EF results file without any change In these instances no C compiler is required A 6 MPI Message Passing Interface MPI components must be installed to use MPI based parallel execution in Abaqus Standard to use domain level parallelization in Abaqus Explicit or to run any job in Abaqus CFD regardless of the number of CPUs If your Abaqus users will be running these types of simulations you must have the required MPI components preinstalled or allow the Abaqus installer to install them for you MPI is a middleware scheme used to facilitate interprocessor communication MPI based parallelization is available for both computer clusters and shared memory architecture platforms The necessary MPI software is included with Abaqus and is installed during the Abaqus product installation on most platforms see Visual C and MPI Libraries Section 2 4 1
41. hold The first of these three command line options does not match a defined queue so the queue_cmd string is used to submit the job to the normal queue This queue must have been set up by the systems manager prior to submission of the job The actual command used to send the job to the normal queue for execution on UNIX platforms is qsub nr me q normal x eo o qt log qt com The value of A is not output if after sime is not specified on the command line The second option uses the string defined by aba_short which submits the job to the system predefined short queue The command executed by the UNIX platform is qsub nr me q short a 10 00 x eo o qt log qt com The last command line option creates the file qt com which contains the Abaqus job commands and saves it in the current directory The message Job qt com not submitted is then written to the terminal The job is not submitted to any queue 4 3 8 Locking out modifications to environment file parameters In the example below all Abaqus jobs will run in batch mode by default and execution of Abaqus Aqua jobs is not allowed The inclusion of the admin parameter prevents modification of these settings in lower level environment files If this parameter is part of the environment file in the installation directory the values of run_mode and no_aqua will override any corresponding values in a user s local directory or command line Therefore this example constrains all job
42. if you do not specify the URL you must perform additional steps to enable access to the HTML documentation from the Abaqus products see Setting the documentation URL after installation Section C 2 The path to the base installation directory simulia_dir under which the PDF documentation files are installed if only the PDF was installed or if you prefer PDF over HTML Entering this path when the installer prompts you will configure the abaqus doc command to open PDF rather than HTML documentation See Abaqus documentation Section 3 2 7 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual for more information INSTALLING Abaqus The commands and options used to install the Abaqus products are described below For a more complete discussion of the Abaqus product installation options see Abaqus product installation details Section 2 4 To install the Abaqus products 1 From the Abaqus parent directory execute the following command or use the following option UNIX and Linux platforms prod_dir setup jre system path to jre crossplatform replay full path to replay file sysinfo nosystemchecks help where prod_dir is the directory used when the Licensing amp Products DVD was mounted or where the product installation files reside Windows platforms e From the startup screen select Launch the Abaqus System Information Utility or select Install Abaqus Product and Licensing e From the command line type prod
43. license server you must remove licensing as a Windows service 1 From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus release Licensing where release refers to the Abaqus release to display the LMTOOLS dialog box 2 Verify Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page 3 Select the Start Stop Reread tab select the appropriate Abaqus 6 x license server where 6 x refers to the Abaqus release and click Stop Server Select the Config Services tab select the appropriate Abaqus 6 x license server and click Remove Service Select File Exit to close the LMTOOLS dialog box Abaqus product installation To install the Abaqus products you must have an Abaqus network license server that is compatible with Abaqus 6 10 installed and running on your network It is recommended that you perform the documentation installation before installing Abaqus products to obtain the URL for the HTML documentation or the base installation directory for PDF files and to enable access to the documentation from Abaqus You will be asked to provide the following information relating to the documentation and licensing installations e The hostname of your license server s REQUIRED e One of the following depending on which formats of documentation were installed The URL for the Abaqus HTML documentation optional but recommended If you did not install the Abaqus HTML documentation before the products or
44. object determine the current graphics settings These settings can be modified during a session using the setValues method The arguments to the setValues method are described in setValues Section 16 8 1 of the Abaqus Scripting Reference Manual CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer You can view the current settings of the graphics parameters by entering the following command in the command line interface print session graphicsOptions The following output is typical accelerateOffScreen OFF antiAlias ON autoFitAfterRotate OFF backfaceCulling ON backgroundBottomColor acaccl1 backgroundColor 333366 backgroundOverride ON backgroundStyle GRADIENT backingStore ON directRendering ON displayLists ON doubleBuffering ON dragMode AS IS graphicsDriver OPEN_GL hardwareAcceleration ON hardwareOverlay OFF hardwareOverlayAvailable False highlightMethod SOFTWARE_OVERLAY highlightMethodHint HARDWARE OVERLAY SOFTWARE OVERLAY XOR BLEND polygonOffsetConstant 2 0 polygonOffsetSlope 0 75 printPolygonOffsetConstant 1 0 printPolygonOffsetSlope 0 75 stencil False printTextureMapping ON shadersAvailable True textureMapping ON translucencyMode 3 vertexArrays ON vertexArraysInDisplayLists ON viewManipDisplayListThreshold 40 Note Some of the parameters listed above have been deprecated For
45. polygonOffsetConstant 0 0 3 Display the bottom view again to refresh the display 4 Examine the model for visible lines If all lines are not visible repeat Step 2 increasing the value of the polygon offset constant by a small increment for example 0 1 The normal range for this parameter is between 0 5 and 1 5 and two decimal places usually provide sufficient precision You should attempt to find a value as small as possible that produces a correct display Values that are too large may cause the lines to appear to float above the part The following figures illustrate the lines that should be visible in your model Figure 5 2 illustrates the model with an incorrect value for polygonOffsetConstant some lines are missing between the shaded areas Figure 5 2 Incorrect value for polygonOffsetConstant Figure 5 3 illustrates the model with a correct value for polygonOffsetConstant all the shaded areas are separated by lines a CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer Figure 5 3 Correct value for polygonOffsetConstant After you have derived a value for polygonOffsetConstant you can tune polygonOffsetSlope To tune the polygonOffsetSlope parameter Y 1 From the Views toolbar apply the isometric view zA This view shows edges at a 45 angle on at least one axis 2 In the command line interface enter the following command session graphicsOptions setValues polygonOffsetSlope 1 0 3 Examine the model for visibl
46. port that is not between 27000 and 27009 you must include the port number with the server host name Multiple servers may be listed in the abaqusIm_license_file parameter as follows abaquslm_ license file port server port server2 port server3 port server_n Abaqus jobs will try to connect to the servers in the order that they are listed F 3 6 Are there any special requirements for using FLEXnet Licensing within a DHCP configured network The hostname on the server line of the license file must be the computer name not the IP address The client must refer to the license server by hostname in the abaquslm_license_file parameter in an Abaqus environment file abaqus_v6 env APPENDIX F TROUBLESHOOTING Abaqus NETWORK LICENSING F 4 Other licensing questions and problems If you are still experiencing problems with Abaqus network licensing and you have checked all the foregoing FAQs and searched the Answers in the SIMULIA Online Support System please refer to Reporting Installation or Licensing Problems for Abaqus Version 6 to submit a request for systems support This document is listed under Status Reports on the Support page at www simulia com If you do not have access to www simulia com you can contact your local support office to obtain a copy of the systems support request form About SIMULIA SIMULIA is the Dassault Systemes brand that delivers a scalable portfolio of Realistic Simulation solutio
47. referred to as abaqus dir The following directories will be created under abaqus_dir depending on which of the installation options are chosen a APPENDIX B Abaqus RELEASE DIRECTORIES AND FILES simulia_dir Documentation installation_info pdf_docs PDF only nsa v6 10 v6 10ef docs p v6 9 v6 10 License v6 10ef installation _info is books HTML pdf_books PDF abaqus_dir This directory is the recommended location of the Abaqus parent directory Figure B 1 The SIMULIA parent directory structure Commands Directory containing links UNIX to or batch files Windows for the driver commands for each release release Release specific parent directory for each installed release For example the default directory name for the initial extended functionality release of Abaqus 6 10 Abaqus 6 10 EF1 is 6 10 EF1 Configuration Directory containing configuration files exec Directory containing executables and command procedures External Directory containing third party executables and libraries Python Directory containing the Python interpreter and modules include Directory containing header files used for building postprocessing programs with the abaqus make utility info Directory containing information files pertaining to the Abaqus release APPENDIX B Abaqus RELEASE DIRECTORIES AND FILES installation_info samples site abaqus_ plugins Help Directory containing product installation
48. release of the Abaqus documentation 1 Set your current directory to the simulia_dir Documentation directory 2 If the release that you are removing uses the monitor process to serve the HTML documentation i e the Abaqus web server or uses the monitor process to perform searches i e an existing non Abaqus web server stop the monitor process using the command bin monitor k 3 Type the following commands rm rf installation_info release rm rf texis release rm rf docs release where release refers to the release of the Abaqus documentation you wish to delete After you remove a release of the documentation you can configure the web server to serve the remaining HTML collection using the following procedure 1 Set your current directory to the simulia_dir Documentation directory 2 Verify that the release number of the release that you wish to serve is referenced in the texis cnf file as follows Default Database INSTALLDIR texis release where release refers to the documentation release you wish to serve 3 Run the command installation_info release initializeExecutable 2 24 INSTALLING Abaqus 4 To start the web server to serve the remaining documentation collection run the command installation_info release startServer To remove a PDF only documeniation installation 1 Set your current directory to the parent directory for the Abaqus documentation simulia_dir 2 Remove the documentation directo
49. remove Abaqus documentation from UNIX and Linux platforms To remove an installation of HTML and PDF documentation The Abaqus HTML and PDF documentation can be removed safely by using one of the following procedures to stop the web server and delete all of the installed documentation releases or a release specific directory and all subordinate files You must have administrator privileges to uninstall Abaqus components e To remove all installed releases of the Abaqus documentation 1 Set your current directory to the parent directory for the Abaqus documentation simulia_dir 2 23 INSTALLING Abaqus 2 If you use the monitor process to serve the HTML documentation i e the Abaqus web server or use the monitor process to perform searches i e an existing non Abaqus web server stop the monitor process using the command Documentation bin monitor k 3 Remove the documentation directory by typing the command rm rf Documentation 4 Remove the web server restart command from the computer s system startup file Contact your system administrator or platform vendor for information on the system startup file for your computer 5 Additional steps may be necessary if you are using an existing non Abaqus web server For more information consult the SIMULIA Answers database in the SIMULIA Online Support System The SIMULIA Online Support System is accessible from the My Support page at www simulia com e To remove a specific
50. the Abaqus HTML documentation see Configuring an existing non Abaqus web server Section C 1 1 e Install the HTML plus PDF documentation with no web server In this case no search functionality is available in the HTML documentation Select this option if you want to view the HTML documentation from your local system without executing an active web server With the exception of no web server the installation option that you select applies to both the Abaqus 6 10 EF HTML documentation and if it exists any previous release of Abaqus documentation If you select the no web server option for the Abaqus 6 10 EF installation the Abaqus 6 10 EF HTML documentation has no web server and the documentation from previous releases is not affected Note On Windows platforms the Abaqus web server software will start up automatically after a reboot On UNIX and Linux platforms the Abaqus web server is started by the installation procedure but you should include the script to restart the web server simulia_dir Documentation installation_info v6 10ef startServer in the system startup file for the server host machine to have the Abaqus web server restart automatically after a system reboot Contact your system administrator or platform vendor for information on the system startup file for your computer When the installation is complete log files are written to the following directory simulia_dir Documentation installation_info v6 10ef
51. the Abaqus products on the license server host unless you will run Abaqus on that computer 2 4 Abaqus product installation details It is recommended that you install Abaqus documentation before you install the Abaqus products if you do not you must perform additional steps to provide access to the HTML documentation from Abaqus To install the Abaqus products an Abaqus network license server that is compatible with Abaqus 6 10 must be installed and running you must know the name of at least one active Abaqus license server to perform the product installation All Abaqus products and sample problems are installed as part of the Abaqus product installation Some Abaqus environment settings are defined appropriately for the parameters defined in your Abaqus license Verification of a subset of licensed products is performed automatically during the installation The commands and options used to install the Abaqus products are listed in Abaqus product installation Section 2 1 3 You must have write permission in the Abaqus parent directory to install the Abaqus products On Windows platforms Abaqus shortcuts and required environment variables including PATH are added to the All User profile INSTALLING Abaqus 2 4 1 Visual C and MPI Libraries When you select Install Abaqus Product amp Licensing from the startup screen on Windows platforms the Microsoft Visual C 2005 SP1 and 2008 SP1 runtime libraries are installed automaticall
52. the admin parameter to ensure uniformity across your site no_aqua Block execution of Abaqus Aqua if value is set to ON no_background Block background execution of Abaqus analysis jobs if value is set to ON no_batch Block batch queue execution of Abaqus analysis jobs if value is set to ON no_cae Block execution of Abaqus CAE if value is set to ON no_ design Block execution of Abaqus Design if value is set to ON no_ explicit Block execution of Abaqus Explicit if value is set to ON no_interactive Block interactive execution of Abaqus analysis jobs if value is set to ON no_standard Block execution of Abaqus Standard if value is set to ON no_viewer Block execution of Abaqus Viewer if value is set to ON 4 13 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT 4 1 5 Executable parameters The Abaqus executables for the licensed modules are placed automatically into the exec subdirectory of the Abaqus installation Prefix parameters _prefix can be set to time on UNIX systems to determine the execution time for a particular stage of an Abaqus run exe_prefix Optional executable prefix for all Abaqus analysis executables The default value is an empty string explicit_prefix Optional executable prefix for Abaqus Explicit The value given for this prefix will override the value given for exe_prefix explicit_dp_prefix Optional executable prefix for the double precision version of Abaqus Explicit The value giv
53. the method of NFS use The most common scenarios for running Abaqus on NFS mounted file systems are as follows D 2 2 e Abaqus is installed on a remote file system The CPU save directory see Job variables Section 4 1 9 and scratch directory are local on the computer where Abaqus will be run In this scenario Abaqus executables and shared libraries are loaded into local memory as they are needed across the network from the file system where Abaqus is installed Processing and output occur locally If there is sufficient local memory to prevent frequent paging of the code network traffic will be relatively light When local memory is insufficient to prevent paging performance will suffer and reliability may be impacted Abaqus is installed on a remote file system The save directory and or scratch directory is are not local to the CPU where Abaqus is executed In this scenario program files and data used during execution are written across the network Potentially large volumes of data will be transferred across the network and performance may be impacted adversely Abaqus performance may be extremely slow and other users of the network may be affected because the network could become saturated In addition Abaqus does not trap file errors arising from NFS so a failure in accessing NFS mounted files even temporary will cause the Abaqus job to fail The use of Abaqus in this configuration should be avoided whenever possible If
54. this option c On the Regional Options tabbed page select Chinese PRC in the Standards and formats section d Click OK 2 Set the system environment variable ABAQUS_USE_LOCALIZATION 1 e To set the variable for a single session enter the following command in a command prompt set ABAQUS_USE_LOCALIZATION 1 You must run Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer from the same command prompt e To set the variable permanently save it in the Windows system properties Environment variables can be saved using the Advanced tabbed page of the System Properties dialog box select Start Settings Control Panel and double click System 5 1 3 Linux settings that affect Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer Linux operating systems provide you with many options for customization Because you can alter parts of the operating environment that are held constant on other platforms your Linux settings may alter some basic interactions within Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer The exact settings available and the methods you use to change them vary according to the version of Linux that you have installed Three possible settings and their effects are as follows Removal of window title bars Your access to some dialog and toolbox functions may be limited if you have customized your system so that window title bars are not displayed Without title bars you may not be able to move a dialog box Using the Esc key is the only means to close a dialog or toolbox that has no title
55. use the FLEXnet Licensing tool lmver or lmstat see Imstat Section 3 6 7 to check the version number of the license server If you need to upgrade the license server you should use the licensing installation procedure to upgrade the license server automatically If you want to configure the license server manually you can use the licensing installation procedure to install only the FLEXnet Licensing administration tools For more information see Licensing installation Section 2 1 2 If your Abaqus license file is integrated with FLEXnet license files for other products using a combined license file you must ensure that the lmgrd version meets the FLEXnet version compatibility rules For more information see the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 which is available for download from the Licensing section of the Support page at www simulia com 3 4 Redundant license server configurations Abaqus licensing offers two forms of server redundancy to guard against license disruptions redundant license server triads and license file lists A redundant license server triad consists of three license servers that function as one using the same license key A license file list consists of multiple independent license servers each with its own license key token requests will check each license server in the list until available tokens are found For a detailed comparison of the two redundancy configurations refer to Answer 891 in t
56. using the old directory structure In the old directory structure the SIMULIA parent directory does not exist The License and Documentation directories discussed above are both installed in the Abaqus parent directory The default location for the Abaqus parent directory in the old structure is C Abaqus on Windows platforms and the current working directory at the time of the installation on UNIX and Linux platforms B 3 a APPENDIX B Abaqus RELEASE DIRECTORIES AND FILES abaqus_dir 6 9 1 Configuration exec 6 10 1 Configuration exec 6 10 EF1 Configuration exec External Python include info installation_info samples site abaqus_plugins __ Commands Help These directories appear only if Abaqus products are installed on a platform that supports Abaqus CAE Figure B 2 The Abaqus parent directory structure If you are working with an old directory structure the simulia_dir and abaqus_dir names used in the path listings throughout this manual should be considered equivalent both names refer to the Abaqus parent installation directory in the old structure The remaining subdirectories in the path listings have not changed APPENDIX C CONFIGURING Abaqus DOCUMENTATION Appendix C Configuring Abaqus documentation Abaqus HTML documentation is installed separately from the licensing and product installations and is viewed through a web browser It is recommended that you
57. was successful and if you should reboot restart your computer This information is shown in the last two lines of the log file For example Uninstall Status SUCCESS Restart Needed YES RECOMMENDED The Uninstall Status line will indicate either SUCCESS or INCOMPLETE The Restart Needed line will indicate either YES_RECOMMENDED YES REQUIRED or NO The uninstallers may be unable to remove some files for example files that are open in another application In addition the uninstallers remove only directories and files that were written by the Abaqus installation procedure You may want to delete any remaining directories and files manually To remove Abaqus licensing Abaqus licensing can be removed in any of the following ways e From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Uninstall Abaqus Licensing e From the Start menu select Settings Control Panel Add or Remove Programs Select Abaqus licensing and click Change or Remove Programs e To use the Abaqus licensing silent uninstaller execute the following batch file from the command line or from another batch script file simulia_dir License installation_info uninstaller silent_license_uninstall bat The licensing uninstallers generate the following log file simulia_dir License installation_info uninstall_log log You should create a backup of any files you wish to keep such as your Abaqus license file typically named abaquslm lic and the FLEXnet Licensing ser
58. when backingStore ON the backing store will not be created if the viewport can be redrawn sufficiently quickly e The translucencyMode parameter determines whether Abaqus CAE optimizes the rendering of translucent objects for performance accuracy or for a level in between Lower values provide better performance while higher values provide greater accuracy e The polygonOffsetConstant and polygonOffsetSlope parameters which affect onscreen display require manual tuning for each graphics adapter On Linux systems the printPolygonOffsetConstant and printPolygonOffsetSlope parameters can generally be set equal to the same values as the corresponding onscreen display parameters On Windows systems the printPolygonOffsetConstant and printPolygonOffsetSlope parameters do not generally need to be adjusted e The viewManipDisplayListThreshold parameter can be lowered if there is an unacceptable delay when initiating view manipulation operations in the the Visualization module Increasing this value may increase the delay for large models but should produce improved graphics performance during the view manipulation If set high with a large model the delay can be many seconds and in excessive cases may exceed system graphics memory and result in an empty display no visible model for the view manipulation You can tune the graphics parameters using the following Abaqus Scripting Interface objects e GraphicsOptions The members of the GraphicsOptions
59. 1c89 To use LMTOOLS Windows platforms to run lmhostid 1 From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Licensing utilities 2 Verify that Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page and select the System Settings tab The host id is listed under Ethernet Address 3 6 4 Impath The lmpath tool allows direct control over FLEXnet license path settings It is most useful for checking current license path settings for diagnostic purposes Syntax and Options lmpath add override vendor all license_file_list add Prepends Jicense_file_list to the current license file list or creates the license file list if it does not exist initializing it to icense_file_list Duplicates are discarded override Overrides the existing license file list with icense_file_list If license_file_list is the null string the specified list is deleted e lmpath override all Deletes the value of LM_LICENSE_FILE e lmpath override vendor Deletes the value of VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE Abaqus LICENSING vendor A vendor daemon name Affects the value of VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE all Refers to all vendor daemons Affects the value of LM_LICENSE_FILE license_file_list A colon separated list on UNIX platforms or a semicolon separated list on Windows platforms If license_file_list is the null string the specified entry is deleted Note lmpath works by setting HOME flexlmre on UNIX platforms an
60. Abaqus prerequisite libraries as follows e On Windows x86 64 platforms the required Microsoft Visual C libraries and Microsoft Message Passing Interface MPI libraries are both installed e On Windows x86 32 platforms only the Microsoft Visual C libraries are installed The GUI installer for the Hewlett Packard HP Message Passing Interface library HP MPI cannot run in the client installer to install these libraries separately see the instructions in Visual C and MPI Libraries Section 2 4 1 If you run the client installer as a user without Windows Administrator privileges no libraries are installed Since the Microsoft Visual C libraries are always required and the MPI libraries are usually required for Abaqus parallel job execution you should follow the instructions in Visual C and MPI Libraries Section 2 4 1 to install them separately on the client computers INSTALLING Abaqus 2 4 2 5 2 5 If you are installing multiple different versions of the Abaqus client you should open a new command prompt window to start each installation otherwise the Abaqus Commands directory will be redundantly added to the user s path PATH environment variable An installation log and an uninstaller are installed on the client computer in the directory C Documents and Settings user Abaqus release where user is your user name and release is the release of Abaqus you are installing The uninstaller is silent n
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62. D If you are installing Abaqus on a computer using a remotely mounted DVD see Accessing the installation files from a remotely mounted DVD Section D 1 For a more detailed discussion of each installation procedure see the following sections e Abaqus documentation installation details Section 2 2 e Abaqus licensing installation details Section 2 3 e Abaqus product installation details Section 2 4 If you are performing an installation on a computer with previous releases of Abaqus installed on it the Abaqus 6 10 Extended Functionality release is installed using the same directory structure as the previous installations see Appendix B Abaqus release directories and files for details If you are installing Abaqus for the first time create a parent directory structure for Abaqus The recommended path for this directory structure is SIMULIA Abaqus Throughout this manual the SIMULIA directory is referred to as simulia_dir in directory path listings Abaqus documentation and licensing are installed in simulia_dir The SIMULIA Abaqus directory is referred to as abaqus_dir in directory path listings the Abaqus products are installed in abaqus dir INSTALLING Abaqus Insert the appropriate DVD in the drive On Windows platforms a startup screen is provided from which you can launch the commands used to perform an Abaqus installation the command to run the system information utility and other installation related ta
63. EXnet Licensing higher than Version 10 8 7 you need to update the license file for Abaqus 6 10 without reinstalling and overwriting the existing licensing utilities You must have write permissions to update the license file If your license file is independent of other products using FLEXnet Licensing you can replace the current license file with the new one using two methods restarting the license server or forcing the server to reread the license file To update an Abaqus license file and restart the license server 1 Backup the current license file by saving it with a new name 2 Copy the new license file to the same location as the original license file using the name of the original license file 3 Run the FLEXnet Licensing tool lmdown see Imdown Section 3 6 2 to shut down the currently running Abaqus license server 4 Restart the Abaqus license server For Windows platforms use the method described in Starting the server using LMTOOLS Section 3 6 9 For UNIX and Linux platforms use the method described in Abaqus licensing installation details Section 2 3 To update and reread an Abaqus license file 1 Backup the current license file by saving it with a new name 2 Copy the new license file to the same location as the original license file using the name of the original license file 3 Run the FLEXnet Licensing tool lmreread see Imreread Section 3 6 6 to force the license server to reread the ne
64. Error exception is provided as a general purpose exception The following examples illustrate the derivation and use of custom queue classes run_mode BATCH from driverQueues import PAA RAR AR RAR RRA m RAR ARR RRR RRR RRA A RY A A e N class NiceQueue Queue onanan n w RAR AR ARR RRA RRR RRNA AE ee def repr self return Executes analysis using UNIX nice command PRR SRAN ARR RAR A RAN OR AAR RR ANA RRR ARR NARA RAS RO SAR 4 26 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT def submit self options env job options job after options get after verbose options get verbose 0 if options get after a descriptive string must be supplied as data when raising a QueueError exception Hann m w m w a OE OO OOOO OEE OOO OE OOO OO OE OE OE OE OOO y OEE EE EES raise QueueError after is not a valid argument for this queue run nice under bourne shell to eliminate platform dependencies emd bin sh c nice s python s com 1 gt s log 2 gt amp 1 amp self getDriverName job job return self spawn cmd env verbose PRAMAS N OVD CRRA RANA Re ew ne class LSF_ResvQueue LSFQueue For integration with LSF This queue class supports cpu memory and license reservations fern wn ran nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn ARRAN ARR A AS Ae def _init_ self name memReserve 0 cpusReserve 0 LSFQueue init _ self name self memReserve memReserve self cpusReserve cpusReserve FOO OE OOOO
65. NVIRONMENT onDesignStartup Optional function to be executed before Abaqus Design begins onJobCompletion Optional function to be executed after the Abaqus job completes A function specified in the Abaqus environment file in the current directory will be executed first followed by the function in the user s home directory and then the function in the Abaqus installation environment file Multiple functions in the same environment file will result in only the last definition being used See Job variables Section 4 1 9 for a list of variables available to this function onJobStartup Optional function to be executed before the Abaqus job begins See Job variables Section 4 1 9 for a list of variables available to this function onViewerStartup Optional function to be executed before Abaqus Viewer begins printed_output By default the values of all PREPRINT parameters are NO and no results are printed to the data file Set the printed_output parameter equal to ON to obtain the same preprint information in the data file as if PREPRINT CONTACT YES ECHO YES HISTORY YES MODEL YES were included in the input file Setting printed_output equal to ON can also cause a large volume of tabular results to be printed to the data file unless printed output control options are used to limit the output Setting printed_output equal to ON will replicate the default data file output from Abaqus 5 8 The default value for th
66. PBSQueue class 4 3 Queues instantiated from the PBSQueue class will create a job name pbs script and run the command qsub job name pbs The job name inp and job name com files will be copied to the execution host where the job name com script will be executed After job completion all output files will be copied back to the submission host The following constructor argument is optional name Name of a valid PBS queue This class overrides the following base class method submit This method invokes the PBS qsub command to submit the job name pbs script to a PBS system and returns the exit status of the qsub command Examples The examples included in this section illustrate various uses of the Abaqus environment file 4 3 1 Example environment file An example Windows environment file is shown below This file will work on UNIX systems as well if you change the scratch directory setting appropriately A sample environment file abaqusinc env is included in the site subdirectory of the Abaqus installation to show the options used at SIMULIA 4 22 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT scratch c temp if applicationName in analysis datacheck continue memory 256 Mb def onCaeStartup Graphics preferences session graphicsOptions setValues dragMode AS_ IS displayLists ON Print preferences session printOptions setValues vpDecorations OFF vpBackground OFF rendition COLOR printCommand lpr
67. Section 3 4 Any supported computer on the network can be used to run the license server as long as the computers that will run Abaqus can communicate with the license server A computer running Windows can act as the license server host for a UNIX network and vice versa Each Abaqus analysis or interactive session must contact the license server prior to beginning execution and periodically while Abaqus is running Therefore Abaqus must have uninterrupted communication with the license server throughout the analysis or interactive session If the license server or the computer on which it runs fails it should be restarted as quickly as possible to ensure minimal interruption of Abaqus jobs License activity is recorded in a log file called the server log Tools to manage licensing activities are described in FLEXnet Licensing administration tools Section 3 6 and The FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 the latter document is available for download from the Licensing section of the Support page at www simulia com Restrictions can be applied to tokens to control access to Abaqus A number of tokens can be reserved for certain users or access can be denied to specific users and computers These restrictions are defined in the network license options file See Using the options file Section 3 7 for more information You can also customize the behavior of a license server through settings in the Abaqus environment file See L
68. Troubleshooting Abaqus network licensing 1 1 INSTALLING Abaqus Installing Abaqus This chapter describes the installation procedures for Abaqus documentation licensing and products as well as the procedures to uninstall these components An Abaqus installation requires two DVDs one for documentation and one for licensing and products Before starting the Abaqus installation procedures you should confirm that your computer is compatible with this release of Abaqus You can do this by checking the software requirements specified in Appendix A System requirements or by using the system information utility available on the licensing and products DVD The system information utility compares your system configuration to the published system requirements Use the following commands or option to run the script UNIX and Linux platforms dvd_dir setup sysinfo where dvd_dir is the directory used when the DVD was mounted or where the installation files reside Windows platforms e From the startup screen select Launch the Abaqus System Information Utility e From the command line type dvd_drive setup exe sysinfo where dvd_drive is the DVD ROM drive The latest information on system requirements is available on the Support page at www simulia com For information on installation procedures and requirements specific to Microsoft Vista refer to the Answers in the SIMULIA Online Support System SOSS which is accessible from the
69. _unins tall bat The documentation uninstallers generate the following log file simulia_dir Documentation installation_info release uninstall_log log Other releases of the Abaqus documentation on your system are not affected by this procedure 2 26 3 1 Abaqus LICENSING Abaqus licensing This chapter describes network licensing updating an Abaqus 6 10 license file upgrading a license server and tools redundant license server configurations and the FLEXnet license server manager licensing administration tools and options file Network licensing Abaqus 6 10 licensing is provided in a network licensing format Network licensing allows a limited number of analysis jobs and interactive sessions to be run simultaneously on any supported computer connected over a network Abaqus network licensing uses the FLEXnet network license manager from Flexera Software formerly Acresso Software to control an Abaqus license server which is a process running on a single computer license server host on a network Abaqus products can run on any supported computer on the network including the license server host as long as the necessary tokens are available Note A network card is required for a computer to operate as a license server Multiple license servers can be selected to provide redundancy in case the license server or its host fails For information on redundant license servers see Redundant license server configurations
70. a particular line for lmdiag to report on Abaqus LICENSING For example imdiag f 1 HOSTID 12345678 attempts a checkout on the line with the hostid 12345678 keyword can be one of the following e VERSION e HOSTID e EXPDATE e KEY e VENDOR STRING e ISSUER If no feature is specified lmdiag operates on all features in the license files in your list 1lmdiag first prints information about the license then attempts to check out each license If the checkout succeeds lmdiag indicates this If the checkout fails lmdiag gives you the reason for the failure If the checkout fails because lmdiag cannot connect to the license server you have the option of running extended connection diagnostics These extended diagnostics attempt to connect to each TCP IP port on the license server machine and detect if the port number in the license file is incorrect Imdiag indicates each TCP IP port number that is listening If it is an lmgrd process lmdiag indicates this as well If 1mdiag finds the vendor daemon for the feature being tested it indicates the correct port number for the license file to correct the problem See The FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 for additional information This manual is available for download from the Licensing section of the Support page at www simulia com To use LMTOOLS Windows platforms to run lmdiag 3 6 2 1 From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Licensing
71. abaquslm log Browse View Log Close Log JV Start Server at Power Up IV Use Services Figure 3 1 The Config Services tabbed page of LMTOOLS 3 6 9 Starting the server using LMTOOLS You must be logged in as Administrator to start the server 1 To access LMTOOLS from the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Licensing utilities 2 Verify that Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page and select the Start Stop Reread tab 3 Click Start Server 4 From the main menu bar select File Exit to close the dialog box 3 7 Using the options file The options file allows the license administrator to control various operating parameters of FLEXnet Licensing Parameters such as EXCLUDE INCLUDE MAX and RESERVE can be used to control Abaqus license usage Usage can be controlled by user name host name display IP address or 3 18 3 8 Abaqus LICENSING project When specifying the features to control you may specify features listed on a FEATURE line in the license file Using a PACKAGE name in place of a FEATURE name applies the option to all of the components in the package You should not specify individual COMPONENTS listed on the PACKAGE line as it may lead to unexpected behavior See Chapter 5 of the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 for detailed information on creating an options file This manual is available from the Licensing section of the Support page at
72. age at www simulia com To install Abaqus 6 10 licensing 1 From the SIMULIA parent directory execute the following command or use the following option INSTALLING Abaqus UNIX and Linux platforms prod_dir setup where prod_dir is the directory used when the Licensing amp Products DVD was mounted or where the licensing installation files reside Windows platforms e From the startup screen select Install Abaqus Product and Licensing e From the command line type prod_drive setup exe where prod_drive is the DVD ROM drive that contains the Licensing amp Products DVD 2 In the Installation type panel choose License 3 Ifyou have an existing Abaqus license server on this system the installer attempts to stop the license server if unable to do so it provides the option to install only the licensing administration tools If you install only the licensing administration tools you must manually configure the license server If the installer is unable to stop the existing license server and you want to complete a full automatic license server installation you need to stop the existing server using the procedure described below 4 Follow the instructions in the dialog boxes that appear to complete the licensing installation 5 On UNIX and Linux platforms the Abaqus license server does not restart automatically after a system reboot by default If you are installing anew Abaqus license server you must add the Abaqus licens
73. allation_info directory This file is helpful for troubleshooting problems and it should not be removed 2 4 3 Repeating product installations on multiple computers When you install the Abaqus products on a computer the installation creates a file called installer properties in the abaqus_dir release installation_info directory This file called the replay file contains information that was used during the product installation such as the installation directory license server host and documentation URL The replay command option is available to repeat a previous installation on identical platforms without reentering the same information for each installation You can use this option to perform a silent installation no graphical user interface is displayed It performs an installation identical to the previous installation same installation directory same license server host etc using the information stored in the replay file The information that was entered for the first installation must be valid for subsequent installations that use the replay option All installation error checking is skipped when this option is used You should make sure that the system meets the requirements as specified in Appendix A System requirements and that you have write permissions and sufficient disk space in the installation directory before performing the installation To use the replay option do the following 1 Install the Abaqus products o
74. allel equation solution method in Abaqus Explicit if the user does not specify the parallel method on the abaqus command line Possible values are DOMAIN or LOOP the default value is DOMAIN standard_parallel The default parallel execution mode in Abaqus Standard if you do not specify the parallel mode on the abaqus command line If this parameter is set equal to ALL both the element operations and the solver will run in parallel If this parameter is set equal to SOLVER only the solver will run in parallel The default parallel execution mode is ALL 4 5 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT 4 1 3 Job customization parameters abq_cosimulation_lower_port This variable specifies the lowest port number in the range of TCP UDP port numbers available for co simulation between two Abaqus analyses it is valid only for Abaqus CAE The default value is 48000 abq_cosimulation_upper_port This variable specifies the highest port number in the range of TCP UDP port numbers available for co simulation between two Abaqus analyses it is valid only for Abaqus CAE If this value is not specified it is set to 1000 more than abq_cosimulation_lower_port auto_calculate If this parameter is set to ON the postprocessing calculator will be launched automatically at the end of an analysis if the execution procedure detects that output database postprocessing is necessary If this parameter is set to OFF the postprocessing calculator will not r
75. also launch the Hewlett Packard MPI installer separately by executing the following file on the Abaqus Licensing amp Products DVD win86_32 HP MPI V1 1_x86 exe The HP MPI installer does not run automatically during a silent installation with the replay option on Windows x86 32 platforms because no GUI can be displayed See Repeating product installations on multiple computers Section 2 4 3 below e On Linux 64 bit operating systems the Abaqus product installer automatically installs the Hewlett Packard HP Message Passing Interface library HP MPI During the Abaqus product installation on Linux 64 bit platforms you will be prompted to configure the MPI based parallel execution mode by choosing one of the following Configure MPI now To simplify usage of the parallel features in Abaqus it is recommended that you use MPI based parallel processing if it is supported on your platform You will need to provide the full path to the appropriate MPI launcher Configure MPI later Abaqus will use the default MPI settings You can change the MPI settings later by editing the environment file located in the abaqus_dir release site directory For more information see Using the Abaqus environment settings Section 3 3 1 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual Configure THREADS now The thread based parallel processing mode is used Supported MPIs are listed in the System Information section of the Support page at www si
76. alysis batch queue Section 4 3 7 for an example after_prefix Optional prefix to be output as part of the submit command when the after option is specified on the command line The default value is an empty string queue_cmd Default command to be used to submit a batch job when the run_mode is set to BATCH This parameter once its placemarkers have been exchanged must be a valid command on the computer system where it is executed The values of the placemarkers are defined by input specified on the 4 16 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT command line of the Abaqus execution procedure or by environment file parameters The values of the placemarkers replace the placemarkers in the queue_cmd string The following placemarkers are available A L P Q S T J E 0 queue_name A percent character The after_prefix string is substituted for A when the after option is specified on the command line The log file name This token will be replaced by job name Log where job name is the value defined by the job command line option The queue_prefix string see description below is substituted for P when the queue option is specified on the command line The queue name from the queue command line option The command script file name This token will be replaced by job name com where jJob name is the value defined by the job command line option The time from the after command line option
77. an Abaqus license file contact your local sales office For the definitions of a general release an extended functionality release and a maintenance delivery see the Abaqus Glossary Abaqus licensing should be installed on only one computer unless you are using a redundant license server configuration The server computers that you choose for documentation and licensing should be accessible by all computers on the network where you plan to run Abaqus and should be stable machines that are not frequently rebooted or shut down Before installing the Abaqus products you must have an Abaqus network license server that is compatible with Abaqus 6 10 installed and running on your network Abaqus 6 10 licensing is compatible with FLEXnet Licensing Version 10 8 7 or higher During the installation procedures default values are supplied whenever possible it is highly recommended that you use the defaults unless you have good reason to change them The SIMULIA directory structure is designed to facilitate multiple releases of Abaqus The Abaqus products Abaqus licensing and Abaqus documentation should be installed in the same SIMULIA parent directory to take full advantage of this directory structure For an illustration of the directory structure see Appendix B Abaqus release directories and files 2 1 Installation procedures This section summarizes the commands used to perform an Abaqus installation on a computer that has a locally mounted DV
78. arance 3 Choose a preset Color scheme from the list 4 If desired choose a new Font size from the list Oo CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer Note Some color schemes allow only one font size by default To increase the font size for a particular item edit the color scheme in the Advanced Appearance dialog box 5 If desired change the color or font settings for individual items in the selected color scheme a Click Advanced The Advanced Appearance dialog box appears b Select the Item for which you want to change color and font display The dialog box displays the current color and if applicable the font settings for the selected item Windows excludes font settings for items that do not display text like the active window border c Choose a new item color from the Color 1 list For items like the active title bar that allow a gradient between two colors you can also adjust the second color in the gradient by choosing a new color from the Color 2 list d Adjust the text settings for the selected item from the options at the bottom of the dialog box You can choose a new Font from the list click the Size arrows to increase or decrease text size choose a new text Color from the list and toggle the bold or italic formatting for the text in this item e Repeat the previous two steps to change color and text display for other individual items in a color scheme f Click OK to close the Advanced Appearance dialog
79. ave write permissions and sufficient disk space in the installation directory before performing the installation To use the replay option do the following 1 Install documentation on a computer using the graphical user interface without the replay option You can install either option HTML and PDF or PDF only 2 Copy the file installer properties the replay file to the other computers on which you want to install Abaqus documentation must be the same platform or to a mounted network drive 3 Install the documentation on another computer using the replay option as follows UNIX and Linux platforms doc_dir setup replay full _path_to_replay_file Windows platforms doc_drive setup exe replay full path_to_replay_file The documentation is installed silently 4 Review the installation log files for errors e html_InstallLog 1log and info 1og for an installation of HTML and PDF e pdf InstallLog 1log for a PDF only installation These files are located in the following directory simulia_dir Documentation installation_info v6 10ef This step is optional but recommended 5 Repeat the documentation installation using the replay option on each of the remaining computers 2 3 INSTALLING Abaqus Abaqus licensing installation details The Abaqus 6 10 Extended Functionality release requires an Abaqus 6 10 license server If you already have an Abaqus Version 6 10 license server installed and running on your network you do no
80. bar or Cancel button Removal of window borders Resizing a dialog box requires you to click and drag the border If your Linux customizations include the removal of application window borders you may not be able to resize dialog boxes in Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer Instead use the scroll bars to access data that extend beyond the edges of a dialog box CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer Displaying Japanese characters If your locale setting is Japanese Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer can display Japanese text in the viewport For example text annotations and the state and title blocks are displayed in Japanese To display the Japanese characters correctly the Japanese TrueType fonts must be installed in the directory usr 1ib X11 fonts 5 2 Configuring printers Print commands are not normally needed for Windows platforms Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer automatically detect and list any installed Windows printers If you encounter problems using the print tool in Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer check the installed Windows printers on your machine and remove any printers that are no longer valid This section describes how Abaqus uses print commands Print commands on Linux platforms should be identical to those used for other applications 5 2 1 How Abaqus determines and uses the print command When Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer prints to a PostScript printer it goes through the following steps Creating a temporary PostScript file T
81. cally installs the Microsoft MPI libraries If desired you can install these libraries separately by selecting Install Microsoft HPC MPI Redistributable Pack from the startup screen You can also launch the Microsoft MPI installer separately by executing the following file on the Abaqus Licensing amp Products DVD win86 64 msmpi_x64 msi If you have Windows HPC Server 2008 however this is not needed because the MPI components are included with the operating system e On Windows x86 32 platforms the Abaqus product installer optionally launches the installer for the Hewlett Packard HP Message Passing Interface library HP MPI If you choose this option the HP MPI installer runs as a separate process and you must click through all panels to completion before continuing with the Abaqus product installer Windows Administrator privileges are required to run the HP MPI installer During the HP MPI installation it is recommended that you make the following choices to ensure compatibility with Abaqus INSTALLING Abaqus Accept the default installation path in the Select Destination Location panel Select HP MPI Libraries tools and services for Windows 2003 XP in the Select Components panel Uncheck Register HP MPI Service with system reboot on restart in the Select Additional Tasks panel If desired you can install the Hewlett Packard MPI libraries separately by selecting Install HP MPI from the startup screen You can
82. cilitate data transfer with SIMULIA an anonymous ftp account is available on the computer ftp simulia com Login as user anonymous and type your e mail address as your password Contact support before placing files on the site Training All offices and representatives offer regularly scheduled public training classes The courses are offered in a traditional classroom form and via the Web We also provide training seminars at customer sites All training classes and seminars include workshops to provide as much practical experience with Abaqus as possible For a schedule and descriptions of available classes see www simulia com or call your local office or representative Feedback We welcome any suggestions for improvements to Abaqus software the support program or documentation We will ensure that any enhancement requests you make are considered for future releases If you wish to make a suggestion about the service or products refer to www simulia com Complaints should be addressed by contacting your local office or through www simulia com by visiting the Quality Assurance section of the Support page Contents Overview Installing Abaqus Installation procedures Abaqus documentation installation details Abaqus licensing installation details Abaqus product installation details Uninstalling Abaqus licensing or products Uninstalling Abaqus documentation 3 Abaqus licensing Network licensing Updating an Abaqus license file
83. cumentation Uninstall Documentation where re ease refers to the release of the Abaqus documentation you wish to delete e From the Start menu select Settings Control Panel Add or Remove Programs Select the Abaqus documentation and click Change or Remove Programs e To use the Abaqus documentation silent uninstaller execute the following batch file from the command line or from another batch script file simulia_dir Documentation installation_info release html_uninstaller silent_doc_uninstall bat The documentation uninstallers generate the following log file 2 25 INSTALLING Abaqus simulia_dir Documentation installation_info release uninstall_log log Other releases of the Abaqus documentation on your system are not affected by this procedure To remove a PDF only documentation installation The Abaqus PDF documentation can be removed in any of the following ways e From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus release PDF Documentation Uninstall Documentation where re ease refers to the release of the documentation you wish to delete e From the Start menu select Settings Control Panel Add or Remove Programs Select the Abaqus documentation and click Change or Remove Programs e To use the Abaqus documentation silent uninstaller execute the following batch file from the command line or from another batch script file simulia_dir Documentation installation_info release html_unins taller silent_doc
84. d crontab e To remove all of the current crontab entries run the following command crontab r For more details on crontab type man crontab from any prompt to view the crontab man page for your system Windows platforms To list current scheduled tasks run the following command schTasks query To remove the automated Abaqus license usage report run the following command schTasks delete tn abaqus usage report 3 22 4 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT Customizing the Abaqus environment This chapter describes how to use environment file parameters to customize the Abaqus execution procedure including how to define analysis batch queues Example files are provided at the end of the chapter 4 1 Using the Abaqus environment file The Abaqus execution procedure see Chapter 3 Job Execution of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual reads environment files to determine the various parameters that are used to run a job The procedure searches three directories for the environment file abaqus_v 6 env in the following order 1 The site subdirectory of the Abaqus installation see Appendix B Abaqus release directories and files An environment file must exist in this directory The settings in this file are ignored when a job is submitted to a remote queue Instead the settings in the site subdirectory on the remote computer are used The user s home directory This environment file is optional
85. d the FLEXnet Licensing registry entry on Windows platforms To display the current license path settings use the command lmpath status The following information is displayed lmutil Copyright C 1989 2008 Acresso Software Known Vendors demo counted lic uncounted lic Other Vendors usr local flexlm licenses license lic Where the path is set to a directory all of the lic files are listed separately To use LMTOOLS Windows platforms to run lmpath 1 From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Licensing utilities 2 Verify that Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page and select the Utilities tab 3 Click List All Vendor Paths 3 6 5 Imremove The lmremove tool allows you to remove a single user s license for a specified feature If the application is active it rechecks out the license shortly after it is freed by lmremove If an Abaqus process terminates abnormally it may not return license tokens to the license pool even though the tokens are no longer needed In this situation Imremove can be used to return Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer tokens to the license pool The user user_host display server_host port and handle Abaqus LICENSING information must be obtained from the output of lmstat a The lmremove tool should not be used to return Abaqus analysis job tokens to the license pool see Appendix F Troubleshooting Abaqus network licensing
86. dant configuration will be terminated If you do not want to terminate all three servers you must use an operating system utility such as the ps and kill commands UNIX platforms or the Windows Task Manager to terminate the license server Do not use the 9 option when using the kill command For more information see Imdown Section 3 6 2 F 2 5 What if the job or session loses contact with the license server before it completes The client enters a state of suspended animation The client will attempt to reestablish contact with the license server until a user defined expiration time is exceeded the default is to continue checking perpetually until contact is reestablished The minimum expiration time is 60 minutes If the predefined expiration time has not been set the client may be terminated by using the standard kill command UNIX platforms for the process On Windows platforms the client can be terminated by entering lt Ctri1 gt C in the DOS window where the client was started if the job was run in interactive mode otherwise use the Task Manager F 2 6 What happens to licenses if the client ends abnormally Tokens are normally returned immediately If the tokens are not returned immediately ensure that the job is not running and stop the executable for the analysis by using abaqus terminate or the appropriate operating system utility such as the ps and kill commands UNIX platforms or the Windows Task Manager Do no
87. do not include information about individual users or locations 3 20 Abaqus LICENSING log Use this option to specify the path to the debug log file or to a directory that includes multiple debug log files the utility reviews all log files located in the specified path for usage data within the specified reporting period start Use this option to specify the starting date and time for the reporting period If the start option is not specified the reporting period begins with the oldest recorded item in the debug log files The date and time must be entered in the following format dd mmm yyyy _hh mm ss For example start 01 jan 2008 09 00 00 indicates a starting time of 9 00 AM on January 1 2008 Specifying a time is optional the default start time is 00 00 00 Ifthe time is specified the hour field Ah must be entered in 24 hour format end Use this option to specify the ending date and time for the reporting period If the end option is not specified the reporting period ends with the most recent recorded item in the debug log files The date and time must be entered in the following format dd mmm yyyy _hh mm ss For example end 31 mar 2008 18 00 00 indicates an ending time of 6 00 PM on March 31 2008 Specifying a time is optional the default end time is 23 59 59 If the time is specified the hour field Ah must be entered in 24 hour format 3 8 2 Scheduling automated license usage reporting Abaqu
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89. e No Yes hardwareOverlayAvailable None No N A shadersAvailable None No N A CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer Parameter Standard Modify using Modify only value Graphics Options on startup dialog box view ManipDisplayListThreshold 40 No No The threshold is only used in the Visualization module of Abaqus CAE Abaqus Viewer when display lists are enabled Translucency mode settings for rendering of translucent objects range from 1 optimized for performance to 5 optimized for accuracy The default value is 4 gt The highlight method is indirectly set by setting the highlightMethodHint parameter Abaqus uses this value to determine an appropriate setting for highlightMethod Hardware acceleration is applicable only to Windows platforms gt You cannot directly set the hardwareOverlayAvailable parameter or the shadersAvailable parameter Abaqus automatically sets these parameters by detecting the available hardware on your system 5 3 3 Using the Abaqus Scripting Interface to tune the graphics parameters You can enter Abaqus Scripting Interface commands in the command line interface to tune your graphics parameters and to find out information about the graphics adapter installed on your system This section explains how to use the Abaqus Scripting Interface to modify the graphics options the Abaqus Scripting Interface is described in detail in the Abaqus Scripting User s Manual
90. e commands that were locked out by the Abaqus account manager ask_delete If this parameter is set to OFF the user will not be asked whether old job files of the same name should be deleted the files will be deleted automatically The default value is ON compile_cpp C compile command The command used at SIMULIA is included in the abaqus_v6 env file in the site subdirectory of the Abaqus installation This command should not normally be changed It may be either a string or a tuple of strings If the command is a tuple of strings each string must represent a single command line argument The values of the placemarker are determined by the Abaqus execution procedure or by the command line options and cannot be modified by the user The values of the placemarker replace the placemarker in the compile_cpp string The following placemarker is available I Search directories for include files compile_fortran FORTRAN compile command The command used at SIMULIA is included in the abaqus_v6 env file in the site subdirectory of the Abaqus installation This command should not normally be changed It may be either a string or a tuple of strings If the command is a tuple of strings each string must represent a single command line argument The compilation of FORTRAN files using Fortran 90 freeform specifications is not supported by default The abaqus_v6 env file in the site subdirectory of the Abaqus installation includes comments that disc
91. e in excess of 2 GB Table A 3 Linux x86 64 Processor x86 647 Operating system Compilers DVD SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Intel Visual Fortran 10 1 and 11 1 Intel C 10 1 and 11 1 Mounted automatically This platform supports 64 bit addressing which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB Linux x86 64 supports both AMD Opteron and Intel EM64T processors 3 SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 includes Server SLES and Desktop SLED versions Table A 4 Linux Itanium Processor Itanium II Operating system Compilers DVD SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Intel Visual Fortran 10 1 Intel C 10 1 Available only by ftp download Contact your local office or representative This platform supports 64 bit addressing which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 includes Server SLES and Desktop SLED versions APPENDIX A SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Table A 5 AIX POWER Processor Power 4 Power 5 Power 6 Operating system AIX 5 3 AIX 6 1 Compilers XL Fortran Compiler 11 01 IBM XL C C Compiler 9 0 DVD Available only by ftp download Contact your local office or representative This platform supports 64 bit addressing which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB Patch bos 64bit 5 3 0 52 must be installed p
92. e lines If all lines are not visible repeat Step 2 increasing the value of the polygon offset slope by a small increment for example 0 1 or 0 05 The normal range for this parameter is between 1 0 and 2 0 and two decimal places usually provide sufficient precision If the polygonOffsetConstant value is too low it may force the polygonOffsetSlope to be high High values of polygonOffsetSlope may cause the edges of hidden polygons to show through where they meet visible polygons In this case raise the polygonOffsetConstant value to get an acceptable value for polygonOffsetSlope Figure 5 4 illustrates the model with an incorrect value for polygonOffsetSlope some line segments are missing between the shaded areas there is a line missing inside the hole and some lines appear dashed when they should appear solid Figure 5 5 illustrates the model with a correct value for polygonOffsetSlope all the shaded areas are separated by solid lines Test the tuned values of polygonOffsetConstant and polygonOffsetSlope on several models to make sure the values are satisfactory When you have finished tuning the graphics parameters you should return your settings for display lists and drag mode to the original values When you are satisfied with the parameter settings you should modify the environment file as described in Making your graphics configuration permanent Section 5 3 4 CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer Figure 5 4 Incorrec
93. e machine where lmgrd is running x lmdown Disables the Imdown command no user can run lmdown If lmdown is disabled you need to stop lmgrd via kill pid UNIX platforms or stop the lmgrd and vendor daemon processes through the Windows Task Manager or Windows service On UNIX platforms verify that the kill command does not contain the 9 option x lmremove Disables the Lmremove command no user can run lmremove z Runs in foreground The default behavior is to run in the background If 1 debug log path is present no windows are used If no 1 options are specified separate windows are used for 1mgrd and each vendor daemon v Prints 1mgrd version number and copyright and exits does not launch 1mgrd help 3 6 Displays usage information and exits FLEXnet Licensing administration tools FLEXnet Licensing provides administration tools to help manage the network licensing activities The Abaqus licensing installation procedure installs the license file and the Abaqus license server The FLEXnet Licensing administration tools are installed in simulia_dir License If you have installed Abaqus products on the license server you can access the License directory using the abaqus command Running the command abaqus licensing without additional arguments displays a command usage summary of all available FLEXnet Licensing administration tools The FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 contains detailed information on the
94. e of maintenance so that future upgrades can be configured automatically e Manual configuration is required for combining license files with other vendors At the beginning of the installation procedure select Just install the licensing utilities You will need to configure and start the Abaqus license server manually Use this method to allow the system administrator more control The Abaqus 6 10 Extended Functionality release requires Imgrd Version 10 8 7 or higher If you integrate your Abaqus license features with other products using a FLEXnet Licensing combined license file ensure that your version of lmgrd meets this requirement For more information refer to the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 which is available from the Licensing section of the Support page at www simulia com The commands and options used to install the Abaqus license server and to stop and remove a license server are described below For a more complete discussion of the licensing installation options see Abaqus licensing installation details Section 2 3 To replace an existing or expired license file see Updating an Abaqus license file Section 3 2 for details on installing a redundant license server see Redundant license server configurations Section 3 4 For information on installation procedures and requirements specific to Microsoft Vista refer to the SIMULIA Online Support System SOSS which is accessible from the My Support p
95. e redundant server hosts and their ports For example if the host names for a set of three redundant servers are maple pine and oak the following parameter definition is appropriate abaquslm_ license file 27000 maple 27000 pine 27000 oak Use a colon to separate the host names on UNIX platforms and use a semicolon to separate the host names on Windows platforms academic This parameter indicates whether an academic Abaqus client should use research or teaching license tokens Setting this parameter to TEACHING will force the Abaqus client to use only teaching license tokens Setting this parameter to RESEARCH or removing the parameter will force Abaqus to use only research license tokens This parameter is set automatically during the product installation if the license server contains an Abaqus teaching license file the installation sets the parameter to TEACHING otherwise the parameter is set to RESEARCH cae_timeout The number of minutes that an Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer session will remain idle due to no user activity before returning its token to the license server The default value is 60 minutes computer_location A string that indicates the location of the local client computer This parameter allows you to subtotal license usage reports by location The license usage reporting utility compiles and organizes data according to the computer_location name The default value is an empty string If you do not change this defa
96. e secure shell command ssh is configured so that it does not prompt the user for a password Abaqus checks the security of the connection by passing a key back and forth between the server and the client For information about how the key is generated see the SIMULIA Online Support System which is accessible from the My Support page at www simulia com If a file called abaqus net passwd is present in the user s home directory on the remote system Abaqus uses the password in the file for authentication instead of the key generated by Abaqus Abaqus checks that the user is the only account with permission to read and write to the password file In addition the user must update the file after 30 days and the password must be at least eight characters long These files are described in Network output database file connector Section 3 2 19 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual Ifusers experience problems establishing communication or if the user names are different they can start the network ODB server manually from the command line using the abaqus networkDBConnector execution procedure on the remote computer Abaqus uses the password in abaqus_net_passwd to authenticate the connection between the client and the server if the user starts the network ODB server manually If abaqus_net_passwd does not exist in the user s directory on the remote system the user cannot start the network ODB server from the command line You can disable ne
97. e value to 2 to print licensing transaction information Set the value to 3 to print operating system environment settings The output associated with the verbose parameter is written to standard output The default value is OFF The following system customization parameters are used during documentation installation and to specify a web browser to display the Abaqus HTML documentation and context sensitive help in Abaqus CAE WARNING If you customize browser behavior for Firefox or you use a web browser not supported by Abaqus you may encounter restrictive behavior that prevents the display of the documentation collection window For example you may be prompted to select a profile under which to run when attempting to access the HTML documentation with a copy of the web browser already running 4 11 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT browser _path Full path to the web browser executable on UNIX and Linux platforms The value of this parameter can be either a string or a list of strings Ifa list of strings is specified the first string must be the full path to the web browser executable and subsequent strings are arguments to customize the browser behavior If any argument strings are included at least one of them must contain s for which the full uniform resource locator URL to the Abaqus HTML documentation will be substituted Abaqus automatically configures supported browsers to correctly display the HTML documentation The conf
98. eck bypass these checks The verification problems for all Abaqus products are extracted automatically from the disk during the installation When it runs the verification procedure attempts to create a new directory called verify in the current working directory During the Abaqus installation procedure the verify directory is created in the release installation_info directory To run the verification procedure from the command line Run the procedure by typing the following command abaqus verify adams all ams cae catiav4 catiav5 cfd contextHelp cPerf dcatiav5 design docUrl exp foundation help ideas install ioPerf log make moldflow noGui NoLicenseCheck NoSystemCheck parallel param parasolid proe retainFiles scripting std swi user_exp user_std verbose viewer Common options all Verify all licensed products All other verification options except log NoLicenseCheck and NoSystemCheck are ignored help Print summary of verify usage install Verify the subset of products that are verified during installation They include user_std or std user_exp or exp param std or exp and cae or viewer All other verification options except log NoLicenseCheck and NoSystemCheck are ignored log Direct all output to a file named verify log in the current working directory Product options ams cae cfd design exp foundation param std user_exp user_std viewer Translator options
99. ection 2 1 for details 4 From the Abaqus parent directory execute prod_dir setup to launch the installation procedure where prod_dir is the location of the copied installation files Windows platforms You can install Abaqus from a remote DVD device if it has been defined as a share Setting up the DVD device as a share must be performed by a user with Administrator privileges To install Abaqus from a shared remote DVD connect to that drive and perform the installation as if the APPENDIX D ACCESSING REMOTE FILE SYSTEMS FOR INSTALLATION AND EXECUTION D 2 drive were local see Installation procedures Section 2 1 Universal Naming Convention UNC paths cannot be used to run the installer executable setup exe but can be entered as the target installation directory during the installation See Information to enter during product installation Section 2 4 2 Running Abaqus remotely To run Abaqus remotely on Windows platforms it is recommended that you use the client product installation described in Client installation for Windows Section 2 4 4 It is also possible to run Abaqus on NFS mounted file systems or to export the display from a remote computer however users may experience performance and reliability problems with these alternatives D 2 1 NFS mounted file systems There are several scenarios for running Abaqus on NFS mounted file systems the impact of using NFS mounted file systems varies with
100. en for this prefix will override the value given for exe_prefix package_prefix Optional executable prefix for the Abaqus Explicit PACKAGE program The value given for this prefix will override the value given for exe_prefix pre_prefix Optional executable prefix for the Abaqus analysis input file processor The value given for this prefix will override the value given for exe_prefix standard_prefix Optional executable prefix for the Abaqus Standard program The value given for this prefix will override the value given for exe_prefix 4 1 6 License management parameters License management customization parameters control the behavior of the Abaqus license server based on current network conditions and user needs The Abaqus license server has been designed with default parameters that should be suitable for most users The following parameters are provided for customization abaquslm_license_file This parameter provides the host name of the computer running the Abaqus license server for licensing and is set during the product installation If a single server is used this parameter should be set to port license_server_host where port is the port number and icense_server_host is the name of the computer running the server If the port number is between 27000 and 27009 you do 4 14 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT not need to include it If redundant servers are used the parameter should be set to a list of the names of th
101. entation can be installed on platforms that are supported for the Abaqus 6 10 Extended Functionality release and should generally be installed on only one computer on your network The server machine that you choose for the HTML and PDF documentation should be accessible by all computers where you plan to run Abaqus The disk space requirement for the Abaqus HTML plus PDF documentation is approximately 2 0 GB Abaqus HTML documentation can be viewed with the following web browsers INSTALLING Abaqus e Firefox 2 and 3 on Linux and Windows platforms e Internet Explorer 6 7 and 8 on Windows platforms only Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance The following PDF viewers are recommended for viewing the Abaqus PDF documentation e Adobe Reader 8 or 9 on Windows and Linux x86 64 platforms e Adobe Reader 7 on Linux Itanitum and UNIX platforms Note To view current information on platform support for web browsers and PDF viewers consult the System Information section of the Support page at www simulia com The Abaqus PDF documentation is not meant as a replacement for the HTML format documentation However it has the following advantages e Requires less disk space e Convenient portable reference e Ability to print a range of pages such as a section or chapter e Higher quality printed output than that available from the HTML documentation e Searchable alternative to the HTML documentation particularly
102. f processors used on each machine The format is identical to the mp_host_list environment variable see Parallelization parameters Section 4 1 2 local_host List of identifiers used to determine the host machine name from which the job was submitted e g host name IP address aliases etc rsh_command Command used to open a remote shell on the machines that were used during analysis The format is identical to the mp_rsh_command environment variable see Parallelization parameters Section 4 1 2 file_system Tuple showing the type of file system used for the MPI based parallel job The first item in the tuple refers to the directory where the job was submitted while the second refers to the job s scratch directory For MPI based parallel Abaqus Explicit analyses that do not use a user subroutine the scratch directory will remain as DETECT unless it was set by the user cpus Number of total processors used for the analysis summed across all host machines The following variables are available outside of the onJobStartup and onJobCompletion functions abaqus_version A string that contains the Abaqus release analysisType The type of analysis to be executed Possible values are EXPLICIT and STANDARD applicationName The name of the Abaqus execution procedure to be executed e g analysis cae or viewer 4 18 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT 4 2 Defining analysis batch queues Analysis batch que
103. fo 3ds com Complete contact information is available at http www simulia com locations locations html Preface This section lists various resources that are available for help with using Abaqus Unified FEA software Support Both technical engineering support for problems with creating a model or performing an analysis and systems support for installation licensing and hardware related problems for Abaqus are offered through a network of local support offices Regional contact information is listed in the front of each Abaqus manual and is accessible from the Locations page at www simulia com SIMULIA Online Support System The SIMULIA Online Support System SOSS provides a knowledge database of SIMULIA Answers SIMULIA Answers are solutions to questions that we have answered or guidelines on how to use Abaqus SIMULIA Scenario Definition Isight and other SIMULIA products You can also submit new requests for support in the SOSS All support incidents are tracked in the SOSS If you contact us by means outside the SOSS to discuss an existing support problem and you know the incident number please mention it so that we can consult the database to see what the latest action has been To use the SOSS you need to register with the system Visit the My Support page at www simulia com Many questions about Abaqus can also be answered by visiting the Products page and the Support page at www simulia com Anonymous ftp site To fa
104. for situations where the HTML documentation is not searchable because it was installed with no web server Installing only the PDF documentation has the following disadvantages e The detailed step by step instructions for using each of the Abaqus CAE functions are available only in the HTML version of the Abaqus CAE User s Manual and as context sensitive help They do not appear in the PDF version of the manual e The hyperlinks in context sensitive help will not function if you have not installed the Abaqus HTML documentation e Some of the items under the Help menu in Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer will connect only to the HTML help not to the PDF documentation The Abaqus PDF collection contains all the books in the HTML collection The PDF version of all manuals except the Abaqus Scripting Reference Manual and the Abaqus GUI Toolkit Reference Manual includes a icon in the top left corner of each page that allows you to print a selected section without specifying a page range More information about navigating and printing the Abaqus PDF documentation is available in Chapter 5 Overview of the Abaqus PDF documentation of Using Abaqus Online Documentation 2 2 1 Configuration of documentation installation When the Abaqus documentation installer runs it determines the configuration of any existing Abaqus documentation INSTALLING Abaqus e If you have the documentation from Abaqus 6 10 or an older release installed Abaqus 6 9 f
105. g MPI implementation to use Generally this variable does not need to be specified mp_mpirun_options String of options that are passed to the MPI launcher for an MPI based parallel Abaqus analysis Generally this variable does not need to be specified 4 4 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT mp_mpirun_path A dictionary to define the full path to the MPI launcher for a given MPI implementation for example mp _mpirun_path HP opt hpmpi bin mpirun mp_rsh_command Preferred command to open a remote shell on the machines specified by mp_host_list Abaqus needs to open a remote shell to create and remove directories and files if the file system is not shared The default value for this option is platform dependent for example mp_rsh_command rsh n l1 bU H C The following placemarkers are used U Username H The host where the remote shell is opened C The command to be executed on the host Abaqus automatically uses secure copy to copy files to and from remote hosts if this parameter is set to use secure shell order_parallel The default direct solver ordering mode in Abaqus Standard if you do not specify the parallel ordering mode on the abaqus command line If this parameter is set equal to OFF the solver ordering will not be performed in parallel If this parameter is set equal to ON the solver ordering will be run in parallel The default for parallel solver ordering is ON parallel The default par
106. g to reenter the same information for each installation For more information see Repeating product installations on multiple computers Section 2 4 3 sysinfo This option lists information about your system s software and hardware resources and compares these resources to the requirements for running Abaqus Abaqus is not installed if this option is used and all other command options are ignored nosystemchecks Skip pre installation system checks By default the installation procedure runs checks before performing an installation to confirm that your system meets the Abaqus minimum system requirements If any requirements affecting the Abaqus products are not met the installation terminates Use this option to bypass the system checks and prevent termination of the installation procedure help Display setup options 2 In the Installation type panel choose Product 3 Follow the instructions in the dialog boxes that appear to complete the product installation 2 2 Abaqus documentation installation details The Abaqus online documentation is provided in two formats HTML and PDF Most installations share the HTML and PDF documentation from a single server Both formats of the documentation can also be installed on as many computers as desired for local access by individual users The commands and options used to install Abaqus documentation are listed in Documentation installation Section 2 1 1 Abaqus HTML docum
107. he Commands directory should be added to each user s path manually Alternately a link for each Abaqus release can be defined at the system level or for each user pointing to the appropriate command in the Commands directory Uninstalling Abaqus licensing or products This section describes how to remove Abaqus licensing or product releases from your computer 1 UNIX and Linux platforms The following procedures explain how to remove Abaqus licensing or product releases from UNIX and Linux platforms 2 20 INSTALLING Abaqus To remove Abaqus licensing This procedure must be performed on the license server host and you must be logged in as root or the owner of the license server 1 Before you can remove the license server and license files you must terminate the license server using the FLEXnet Licensing tool lmdown see Imdown Section 3 6 2 2 Create a backup of any files you wish to keep such as your Abaqus license file typically named abaqus1m lic and the FLEXnet Licensing server debug log file typically named abaqus1m 1log 3 Remove the files using the following procedure cd simulia dir rm rf License 4 Remove the license server restart command from the computer s system startup file Contact your system administrator or platform vendor for information on the system startup file for your computer To remove the Abaqus products You can remove a release of Abaqus by deleting the release specific
108. he SIMULIA Online Support System The SIMULIA Online Support System is 3 3 Abaqus LICENSING accessible through the My Support page at www simulia com Configuration of license file lists is not covered in detail in this manual A redundant license server triad requires three computers At least two license servers must be running for licenses to be granted Network communications must be consistent and reliable among the three computers used in a redundant server triad Redundant license server triads are considered to be an advanced use of FLEXnet Licensing More detailed requirements for redundant license servers appear in the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 which is available for download from the Licensing section of the Support page at www simulia com You can install and configure a redundant license server triad using either an automatic or a manual process The manual process is required if your servers use different port numbers otherwise the automatic installation is recommended In both cases you will have to start the servers manually using the FLEXnet license server manager lmgrd In their initial startup the redundant license servers must be started simultaneously within one minute of each other 3 4 1 Installing a redundant license server triad automatically Use the following procedure to automatically install and configure a redundant license server triad 1 Copy the license file that you received to each of t
109. he temporary PostScript file contains all the PostScript code necessary to describe the page to be printed Retrieving the print command specified in the print dialog box The command specified in the print dialog box can be any command that sends to the printer an unmodified copy of the file whose path is its last argument some PostScript modifications such as the ones done by PostScript print managers are allowed To customize the default print command that is used by Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer when it shows the print dialog box add the following line to the abaqus_v6 env file in your home directory or in the site directory of the Abaqus release def onCaeStartup session printOptions setValues printCommand print_command_and_arguments_here Appending the name of the temporary file and invoking the resulting command The name of the previously created temporary file is appended to the print command and the PostScript file is printed Deleting the temporary PostScript file If the printer that you are using does not support print spooling the temporary PostScript file may be deleted before the file is printed To prevent the temporary PostScript files from being deleted a CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer add the following line to the abaqus_v6 env file in your home directory or in the site directory of the Abaqus release def onCaeStartup session printOptions setValues deleteTemporaryFiles False 5 3 T
110. he three license server computers 2 On one of the server computers use the Abaqus licensing installation procedure to automatically install configure and start the Abaqus license server see Licensing installation Section 2 1 2 Once the installation program detects a redundant license file it will not be able to start the server However it will install and configure the license server automatically 3 Follow the instructions that appear in the dialog boxes to complete the licensing installation When prompted enter the port number on which the servers will run In addition enter the hostnames or IP addresses of your servers next to the corresponding host ids 4 Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for the remaining two server computers The server information must be entered in the same order for each installation 5 Start the servers using the procedure described in Starting a redundant license server triad Section 3 4 3 3 4 2 Installing a redundant license server triad manually Use the following procedure to manually install and configure a redundant license server triad This procedure is necessary if the three servers in your configuration use different ports 1 On each of the three license server computers use the Abaqus licensing installation procedure to install the Abaqus FLEXnet Licensing administration tools see Licensing installation Section 2 1 2 Abaqus LICENSING The licensing tools are saved in the
111. hecked out on each day within a specified period Daily usage reports provide aggregate data for all users and locations The license usage reports calculate token usage to two significant figures If the total hours of license usage in a summary report or the average number of tokens checked out in a daily report is less than 0 005 the usage report lists these values as zero If the FLEXnet debug log file or log files is located on a remote server you must copy it to a directory that is accessible to the local computer before running the usage utility Syntax and Options abaqus licensing usage summary report file daily report file nouser log debug log file debug log directory start start_date end end date summary Use this option to create a report summarizing usage of each license feature by user or location The report is written to the path and file name specified by report _file daily Use this option to create a report providing peak and average daily usage of analysis and Abaqus CAE license tokens The report is written to the path and file name specified by report file nouser This option suppresses usage data about individual users in a summary report It reports aggregate data for the entire license server If the computer_location environment file parameter is set it also reports aggregate data for each location This option has no effect when used in conjunction with the daily option daily reports
112. icense management parameters Section 4 1 6 for information on the environment file settings The license server continuously tracks which tokens on the network are available and which are in use Prior to beginning an analysis or interactive session the Abaqus job client requests tokens Abaqus LICENSING from the license server If tokens are in the available pool the license server transfers tokens from the available pool to the in use pool and the tokens remain in the in use pool until the end of the analysis or interactive session If no tokens are available an analysis job is placed in the license queue and an interactive session exits with an error message stating that no tokens are available At the normal completion of the analysis or interactive session the Abaqus client notifies the license server and the server returns the tokens to the available pool If the analysis or interactive session aborts the tokens are returned immediately For help in resolving questions relating to Abaqus licensing see Appendix F Troubleshooting Abaqus network licensing 3 2 Updating an Abaqus license file You may need to update an Abaqus 6 10 license file for example when you obtain a new license file to replace an expired license file or to revise license features You may also need to replace a license file from a previous release of Abaqus For example if you manually upgraded an existing license server to a version of FL
113. iew This guide contains information about installing and customizing the Abaqus 6 10 Extended Functionality 6 10 EF release This guide is also accessible from the Documentation section of the Support page at www simulia com The installation of Abaqus involves the following tasks e Installing the Abaqus documentation e Installing the Abaqus license server e Installing Abaqus products For a description of the installation procedures see Chapter 2 Installing Abaqus Network licensing and procedures to administer the license server are described in Chapter 3 Abaqus licensing The environment file provides options for customizing an Abaqus installation Specifying the file system to be used to store scratch files is particularly important For details on how to set local defaults and adjust the system configuration to run Abaqus jobs efficiently see Chapter 4 Customizing the Abaqus environment For more information on customizing the Abaqus user interface printer configuration and graphic card tuning see Chapter 5 Customizing Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer Additional information is provided in the following appendices e Appendix A System requirements e Appendix B Abaqus release directories and files e Appendix C Configuring Abaqus documentation e Appendix D Accessing remote file systems for installation and execution e Appendix E Verification procedure e Appendix F
114. iewer using the mesa option abaqus cae mesa abaqus viewer mesa Windows platforms There are two ways to disable hardware acceleration on Windows platforms e Add the parameter abaqus_no_hardware_acceleration ON to the Abaqus environment file or e Create a system environment variable using the following command set ABAQUS NO HARDWARE ACCELERATION 1 5 1 2 Common customizations on Windows platforms The following procedures explain how to specify some commonly desired settings on Windows platforms 5 1 a CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer To change the start in location for any Abaqus shortcut 1 Use Windows Explorer to go to the directory where the Abaqus shortcuts are located The shortcuts contained in this directory affect all users on the computer and may require special permission to change 2 Click mouse button 3 on the shortcut Abaqus CAE Abaqus Command or Abaqus Viewer for which you wish to change the start in location and select Properties then click the Shortcut tab 3 In the text box labeled Start in set the full path to the directory you wish to use as the default location for saving the files created by that Abaqus product To stop Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer windows from being erased when a dialog box is moved Menu items may vary depending upon your Windows operating system For Windows XP operating systems 1 Select Start Settings Control Panel and double click Display
115. ified the indicated file is used as the license file The h variation uses server_host port and license handle as reported by lmstat a 3 13 Abaqus LICENSING 3 6 6 Imreread The lmreread tool causes the license manager to reread the license file and start any new vendor daemons that have been added In addition all currently running vendor daemons are signaled to reread the license file and their end user options files for changes in feature licensing information or option settings If report logging is enabled any report log data still in the vendor daemon s internal data buffer are flushed lmreread recognizes changes to server machine host names but cannot be used to change server TCP IP port numbers If the optional vendor daemon name is specified only the named daemon rereads the license file and its end user options file in this case lmgrd does not reread the license file Syntax and Options lmreread c license file list vendor vendor a11 c license file list Use the specified license files vendor vendor Only this vendor daemon rereads the license file lmgrd restarts the vendor daemon if necessary all If more than one lmgrd is specified instructs all lmgrds to reread You may want to protect the execution of lmreread See the 2 p and x options in FLEXnet license server manager Imgrd Section 3 5 for details about securing access to lmreread To stop and restart a single vendor
116. igurations are different for each browser This parameter can be used in conjunction with browser_type to clarify the browser being used If browser_path is set equal to a string and browser _type is not set the system checks the specified browser path for Firefox If Abaqus does not detect Firefox Abaqus assumes that an unsupported browser will be used and does not perform an automatic configuration This parameter is ignored on Windows platforms browser_type Web browser on UNIX and Linux platforms To correctly display the HTML documentation Abaqus automatically configures the browser according to the specified browser type The possible settings are FIREFOX and CUSTOM_BROWSER If you set browser_type CUSTOM_BROWSER to use a web browser other than Firefox no support or automatic configuration is provided For more information see Using a web browser not supported by Abaqus Section 4 3 4 This parameter can be used in conjunction with browser_path to directly specify an executable command for the browser If browser_type is set to Firefox and browser _path is not set the system searches the system path for Firefox If the specified browser is not found an error is displayed This parameter is ignored on Windows platforms doc_root Full uniform resource locator URL or path to the Abaqus HTML or PDF documentation This variable is set during product installation when you provide the documentation URL and should not normally be changed
117. in square brackets Individual items in the list are separated by commas Entries take the form 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT parameter valuel value2 value3 e Tuples must be enclosed in parentheses Individual items in the tuple are separated by commas If the tuple is enclosed in parentheses and contains only one value a comma has to follow the value Entries take the form parameter valuel value2 e Embedded single quotes do not require special handling if they are placed within a double quoted string For example my value s is translated as my value s The same holds true for double quotes embedded in a single quoted string Quotes of the same type as the enclosing quotes can be embedded if they are prefixed by the backslash character Strings in a list or a tuple must be enclosed in quotes woe e Triple quoted strings can span more than one line and no special treatment of quotes within the string is necessary Entries take the form parameter multi line value Examples of many of the environment file parameters are available in the abaqus_v6 env and abaqusinc env environment files found in the site subdirectory of the Abaqus installation Care should be taken when merging customized abaqus_v6 env settings from an earlier release into the current release Settings from the earlier release may not be compatible with the new release The available parameters are described in the fol
118. information on accessing deprecated parameters see BackwardCompatibility object Section 50 4 of the Abaqus Scripting Reference Manual 5 11 a CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer The following command uses the setValues method to modify some members of the GraphicsOptions object session graphicsOptions setValues autoFitAfterRotate ON dragMode AS_IS You can enter this command in the command line interface e GraphicsInfo The members of the GraphicsInfo object provide information about the graphics adapter installed on your system This information may be useful for determining how to tune the graphics adapter The members are described in GraphicsInfo object Section 16 7 of the Abaqus Scripting Reference Manual The members are for reference only and cannot be modified You can view the graphics information by entering the following command in the command line interface print session graphicsInfo The following output is typical on Windows platforms glRenderer Quadro FX 560 PCI SSE2 glVendor NVIDIA Corporation glVersion 2 0 3 glxClientVendor None glxClientVersion None None None glxServerVendor None glxServerVersion 5 1 None Tuning the polygonOffsetConstant and polygonOffsetSlope parameters If display lists are enabled you will not see the effect of tuning these parameters therefore you must toggle off Use display lists before attempting to tune you
119. ing command to your system startup script if you wish to have the Abaqus license server restart automatically The command that was used to start the server is written to simulia_dir License installation_info license_startup txt On Windows platforms an automatically configured license server starts automatically upon reboot Stopping and removing an existing license server If you have an existing license server from a previous release of Abaqus running on your system you will need to remove it before installing the new license server The license installation procedure will attempt to remove the existing server automatically If it is unable to do so you should remove the existing server using one of the following procedures UNIX and Linux platforms 1 Enter the command simulia_dir License 1mdown c port license_server_host vendor ABAQUSLM where icense_server_host is the hostname of the license server If the license server is using a port that is not between 27000 and 27009 you must specify the port number as well 2 1 3 INSTALLING Abaqus 2 Verify that the server has been stopped by running the command simulia_dir License 1mstat c port license_server_host Verify that no ABAQUSLM vendor daemons are reported An error status message may appear if the Abaqus license server was successfully stopped and there are no other vendor daemons running on the specified host Windows platforms In addition to terminating the
120. install and start the Abaqus web server to serve the HTML and PDF files to your users web browsers You can install HTML documentation without a web server however in this case no search functionality is available For information on the documentation installation options see Abaqus documentation installation details Section 2 2 This appendix contains information related to configuring the web server and Abaqus HTML documentation You must configure the Abaqus HTML documentation if you use an existing non Abaqus web server during the HTML documentation installation procedure if you install Abaqus products before installing Abaqus HTML documentation or if you do not specify the URL for HTML documentation during the product installation For the latest information on supported web servers and configuring existing non Abaqus web servers see the Answers in the SIMULIA Online Support System The SIMULIA Online Support System is accessible through the My Support page at www simulia com Note When you install the Abaqus HTML documentation the PDF files are also installed Both the HTML and PDF versions are available through a web browser via a link from the HTML collection home page index html to the PDF collection index file index pdf C 1 Using an existing non Abaqus web server When you install Abaqus documentation and you choose to use an existing non Abaqus web server you must configure your server manually to access the HTML
121. ion time The requirements are highly job dependent Abaqus will perform better if more memory is available to run large problems significantly more memory than the minimum is required A 4 Graphics The graphics requirements depend on the platforms on which you are running Abaqus Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer can be run on the following platforms e Windows x86 32 APPENDIX A SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS e Windows x86 64 e Linux x86 64 A color workstation with at least 256 colors is required for Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer A limited set of graphics devices has been tested and qualified this list is available under the System Information section of the Support page at www simulia com For information on tuning new graphics devices between Abaqus releases see Tuning graphics cards Section 5 3 The latest information on supported platforms and products can also be found under the System Information section of the Support page at www simulia com A 4 1 Linux platforms X Windows is required on Linux platforms The OpenGL shared library is required on the computer where Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer are run A 5 Compilers A FORTRAN compiler is required to compile and link user subroutines for Abaqus If you prefer to write user subroutines in languages other than FORTRAN you must have the FORTRAN compiler specified a compiler for your language and the knowledge of how to call routines in your language from FORTRAN SIMULIA cannot
122. ions are posted under System Information on the Support page You can also consult the SIMULIA Online Support System for more information on installation and verification If you are still unable to resolve the problem contact your local office or representative for help Refer to the Support Overview page at www simulia com APPENDIX F TROUBLESHOOTING Abaqus NETWORK LICENSING Appendix F Troubleshooting Abaqus network licensing This appendix addresses questions about network licensing You can also consult the SIMULIA Answers database in the SIMULIA Online Support System for more information on troubleshooting network licensing The SIMULIA Online Support System is accessible through the My Support page at www simulia com F 1 General questions This section addresses some general questions about Abaqus licensing F 1 1 Are there limits to network size for network licensing to work The size of a network is limited by the requirement that all computers running Abaqus must be able to connect directly and regularly with the license server If communication with the server takes too long the client will spend more time communicating with the server than it does processing Failure to communicate regularly will result in clients losing tokens and waiting while they are reacquired The most basic test of network communication is the ping command Ifa client and server cannot ping each other by name and IP address network licensing will not wor
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124. is variable defines the maximum number of warning messages that will be sent from an analysis job to Abaqus CAE it is valid only for Abaqus CAE The default value is 200 4 6 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT double_precision The default precision version of Abaqus Explicit to run if you do not specify the precision version on the abaqus command line Possible values are EXPLICIT only the Abaqus Explicit analysis is run in double precision BOTH both the Abaqus Explicit packager and analysis are run in double precision CONSTRAINT the constraint packager and constraint solver in Abaqus Explicit are run in double precision while the Abaqus Explicit packager and analysis continue to run in single precision or OFF both the Abaqus Explicit packager and analysis are run in single precision The default is OFF max_history_requests This parameter specifies the maximum number of history requests allowed in an Abaqus analysis The default value is 10 000 History output in Abaqus is intended for relatively frequent output requests for small portions of a model and is displayed in X Y plots in the Visualization module of Abaqus CAE Abaqus Viewer Requesting large amounts of history output will cause performance problems in both analysis and postprocessing of an Abaqus job For vector or tensor valued output variables each component is considered to be a single request In the case of element variables history output will be generated a
125. is variable is OFF run_mode Default run mode INTERACTIVE BACKGROUND or BATCH if the user does not specify the run mode on the abaqus command line when running the analysis products The default value is BACKGROUND This variable should not be set to BATCH unless batch queues are defined split_dat If this variable is set to ON the data file will be split into two pieces The output from the user input processing will be put in a file with a pre extension The analysis output file will still have a dat file extension The default value is OFF 4 8 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT unconnected_regions If this variable is set to ON Abaqus Standard will create element and node sets in the output database for unconnected regions in the model during a datacheck analysis Element and node sets created with this option are named MESH COMPONENT N where N is the component number 4 1 4 System customization parameters admin This parameter prevents unauthorized modification of environment file parameters Set this parameter equal to a list of environment file parameters that cannot be changed in a lower level abaqus_v6 env file Unless otherwise noted all system and job customization parameters can be locked out Commands in the installation directory have the highest precedence followed by commands in the user s home directory and then commands in the current working directory Thus an Abaqus user cannot change environment fil
126. k between the two computers However the fact that the ping command functions properly does not necessarily guarantee that network licensing will work F 1 2 Must there be a name server running for network licensing to work Some form of host name resolution is required to set up network licensing If there is no NIS or DNS name server functionality on your network then host files must be manually configured on each machine For more information refer to Answer 623 in the SIMULIA Online Support System which is available from the My Support page at www simulia com F 1 3 How can tell if a license file is installed The license file for Abaqus is usually installed in a directory called simulia_dir License and is typically named abaquslm lic The License directory can be placed anywhere but it usually resides within the SIMULIA parent directory F 1 4 What is the license server log file and where should it be stored The server log file records all the license requests for Abaqus jobs and sessions clients It is stored in the Abaqus License directory and can be given any name you like Usually the file is called abaquslm 1log 5 APPENDIX F TROUBLESHOOTING Abaqus NETWORK LICENSING F 1 5 What is the license options file and where should it be stored The options file allows the license administrator to control various operating parameters of FLEXnet Licensing such as reserving a number of tokens for certain users computers o
127. l attempt to connect to the license server if the license server is currently unavailable The default value of 0 forces the job to attempt to connect indefinitely unless it is killed by the user 4 1 7 Object oriented batch queue parameter The object oriented interface for defining an analysis batch queue is easily customized and extended An analysis batch queue is available from the Abaqus execution procedure command line once it has been instantiated and inserted into the dictionary of analysis queues See Defining analysis batch queues Section 4 2 for more information queues Dictionary of queue names and objects Queue names and their corresponding object instances are inserted into the dictionary as key value pairs The special queue name default can be used to designate a default queue The default queue is used when the run_mode is set to BATCH and the queue option is not specified on the command line It is also used when the queue option is specified on the command line but the named queue is blank or does not exist in the queues dictionary 4 1 8 String based batch queue parameters The string based interface for defining an analysis batch queue allows access to a fixed number of options The parameters below can be used to construct command strings to control the execution of an Abaqus analysis The only requirement is the string must be a valid command on the computer system where it is executed See Defining a string based an
128. lator is a component of the SolidWorks Associative Interface Verifies geometry import capability in Abaqus CAE does not verify installation or functionality of the SolidWorks Associative Interface plug in contextHelp Verify Abaqus CAE context sensitive help functions cPerf Verify Abaqus CAE performance docUrl1 Verify Abaqus HTML documentation URL ioPerf Verify I O performance make Verify the abaqus make utility noGui Verify the noGUI option for Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer NoLicenseCheck Requires all insta11 or a list of product options Run the verification procedure for the specified products but bypass all licensing checks The procedure attempts to verify all selected products regardless of licensing NoSystemCheck Requires all insta11 or a list of product options Run the verification procedure for the specified products but bypass all system requirement checks The procedure attempts to verify all selected products regardless of system requirements parallel Verify Abaqus analysis jobs using parallelization scripting Verify the Abaqus scripting interface retainFiles Retain all verification files in the verify directory by default the files are deleted after a successful verification verbose Include additional details for debugging purposes If a product selected for verification is not licensed an Abaqus warning is displayed for the selected product and the verification of other selected products continues
129. license key obtained for use with Abaqus 6 10 2 will work with later maintenance deliveries such as Abaqus 6 10 3 Abaqus 6 10 4 etc Abaqus 6 10 Extended Functionality releases such as Abaqus 6 10 EF1 Abaqus 6 10 EF2 etc and previous releases Abaqus 6 9 1 This license key will not work with Abaqus 6 11 1 or later 10 Do I have to update the network license server when install a new release of Abaqus Yes if the new release of Abaqus uses a later version of FLEXnet Licensing than your existing license server Abaqus 6 10 uses FLEXnet Licensing Version 10 8 7 If you have a version of FLEXnet Licensing earlier than Version 10 8 7 installed on your system you should use the licensing installer to automatically upgrade the license server If you have an existing license server that uses a version of FLEXnet Licensing higher than Version 10 8 7 you should use the procedure described in Updating an Abaqus license file Section 3 2 to update your license file without overwriting the existing license server For more information see Licensing installation Section 2 1 2 If your Abaqus license file is integrated with FLEXnet license files for other products using a combined license file you must ensure that the lmgrd version meets the FLEXnet version compatibility rules listed in Appendix I of the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 You can check under Licensing on the Support page at www simulia com for the FLEXnet
130. ller that are placed on the client computer require about 100 MB of disk space When you install the Abaqus products the installation creates a file called installer properties in the abaqus_dir release installation_info directory The client installer uses this properties file to perform a silent installation on the client computer No graphical user interface is displayed and all error checking is skipped during the installation on the client computer To perform a client installation do the following 1 Install the Abaqus products on a Windows mounted network drive You can enter either a mapped drive path or a Universal Naming Convention UNC path as the target installation directory For example a UNC path might be of the form ComputerName SharedFolder path 2 On the client computer open a command prompt window and execute the following command Network_drive path_to_installation installation_info client_setup exe The client computer is configured to run Abaqus from the network drive Pre installation checks and post installation verification are bypassed 3 Run the verification procedure manually to check the installation of the Abaqus products see Appendix E Verification procedure This step is optional but strongly recommended 4 Repeat Steps 2 and 3 on each of the remaining client computers If you run the client installer client_setup exe as a user with Windows Administrator privileges it will install the
131. lowing sections 4 1 1 Memory and disk management parameters Management of memory and disk resources for Abaqus Standard and Abaqus Explicit is discussed in detail in Managing memory and disk use in Abaqus Section 3 4 1 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual The relevant parameters are listed here along with a single parameter abq_ker_memory that is used to manage memory in Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer The available units for memory sizes are mb megabytes and gb gigabytes If the units are not specified the size is assumed to be in megabytes abq_ker_memory The maximum amount of memory that can be allocated by the Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer kernel If the limit is exceeded Abaqus CAE displays an error message The abq_ker_memory must be specified in MB megabytes and is used only for 32 bit systems For Windows 32 bit systems the default is 1800 MB for Linux 32 bit systems the default is 2800 MB Increasing the memory limit is not recommended unless you are using a Windows 32 bit system with the boot option 3GB userva SizeInMBytes to extend the amount of memory available for Abaqus CAE In this case the limit can be changed to 2800 MB the same as Linux 4 2 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT scratch Full path name of the directory to be used for scratch files The default value on UNIX is the value of the TMPDIR environment variable or tmp if TMPDIR is not defined On Windows the default value is the value of the
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133. mulia com For more information on MPI and thread based parallel processing modes see Parallel execution Section 3 5 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual The Abaqus Windows client installer will install most of the required libraries when you run it with Windows Administrator privileges see Client installation for Windows Section 2 4 4 for more information Any other third party software that will be used in conjunction with the Abaqus products compilers operating system patches etc should be installed before installing the Abaqus products 2 4 2 Information to enter during product installation When the installer runs you will be prompted for the items below When a file location or directory is requested you can click Choose to browse for the path INSTALLING Abaqus e The network license server host name The installation procedure will attempt to determine this information automatically but you have the option of changing the default choice Make sure the appropriate license server host is entered If a set of redundant servers should be used enter the host names of the redundant servers in the boxes provided in the dialog box see Redundant license server configurations Section 3 4 for details on installing redundant license servers The installation will define settings in the Abaqus environment file according to information detected in the Abaqus license file on the server If the license server contains
134. mulia_dir License directory using the default name abaqus1m lic e The installation directory Specify the SIMULIA parent directory simulia_dir which is the location where the licensing directory will be stored The default location for the installation directory is the current working directory on UNIX and Linux platforms and C SIMULIA on Windows platforms Note On Windows platforms the license server is started by the installation procedure and will start up automatically upon reboot On UNIX and Linux platforms the license server is started by the installation procedure but you should include the command to restart the license server in the system startup file for the license server host computer to have the Abaqus license server restart automatically after a system reboot The command to restart the license server is written to the license_startup csh file in the simulia_dir License installation_info directory Contact your system administrator or platform vendor for information on the system startup file for your computer Log files are written to the simulia_dir License installation_info directory when the installation is complete The log files are helpful for troubleshooting problems and they should not be removed After the Abaqus documentation is installed and the license server is installed and running you should proceed to the Abaqus product installation on each computer that you will use to run the products You need not install
135. n a computer using the graphical user interface without the replay option 2 Copy the file installer properties the replay file to the other computers on which you want to install the Abaqus products must be the same platform or to a mounted network drive 3 Install the Abaqus products on another computer using the replay option as follows UNIX and Linux platforms prod_dir setup replay full_path_to_replay_file Windows platforms prod_drive setup exe replay full _path_to_replay_file The Abaqus products are installed silently and pre installation system checks and post installation verification are bypassed 4 Run the verification procedure manually to check the installation of the Abaqus products see Appendix E Verification procedure This step is optional but strongly recommended 5 Repeat the product installation using the replay option on each of the remaining computers INSTALLING Abaqus 2 4 4 Client installation for Windows The client product installation allows you to configure a computer on a Windows platform to run the Abaqus products that have been installed on a mounted network drive Use this installation to configure multiple computers to run Abaqus from a central server location without installing Abaqus on each computer The client computer must be able to access the directory containing the Abaqus installation on the network and the Abaqus license server The shortcuts library files and uninsta
136. nistration tools you must start the license server manually using the FLEXnet license server manager lmgrd see FLEXnet license server manager Imgrd Section 3 5 If you are installing an Abaqus 6 10 license server you must have an Abaqus 6 10 license file saved on the computer on which you are installing the license server The license file is the file containing the Abaqus 6 10 license that was attached to the e mail message sent by SIMULIA identified by Subject LK site ID Abaqus 6 10 License File where site ID is the customer number that was assigned to your site or by your local office or representative Abaqus licensing needs to be installed on only one computer on your network unless you are using a redundant license server configuration The disk space requirement for the Abaqus licensing utilities ranges from 10 25 MB depending upon the platform The computer that you choose for licensing should be accessible by all computers where you plan to run Abaqus and should be a stable machine that is not frequently rebooted or shut down For additional information on licensing see Chapter 3 Abaqus licensing When the installation procedure is executed a browse function is provided for prompts where you are requested to specify a directory or file location You will be prompted for the following information INSTALLING Abaqus e The location of the license file The installation procedure will save the license file in the si
137. ns including the Abaqus product suite for Unified Finite Element Analysis multiphysics solutions for insight into challenging engineering problems and lifecycle management solutions for managing simulation data processes and intellectual property By building on established technology respected quality and superior customer service SIMULIA makes realistic simulation an integral business practice that improves product performance reduces physical prototypes and drives innovation Headquartered in Providence RI USA with R amp D centers in Providence and in Velizy France SIMULIA provides sales services and support through a global network of regional offices and distributors For more information visit www simulia com About Dassault Syst mes As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management PLM solutions Dassault Syst mes brings value to more than 100 000 customers in 80 countries A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981 Dassault Syst mes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling The Dassault Syst mes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design DELMIA for virtual production SIMULIA for virtual testing ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences Dassault Syste
138. nse file 7 Save the abaqus1m lic file and copy the file to the licensing directory on each of the other two server computers 8 On Windows platforms you must install licensing as a service on each license server using the procedure described in Installing licensing as a Windows service Section 3 6 8 9 Start the license servers using the procedure described in Starting a redundant license server triad Section 3 4 3 3 4 3 Starting a redundant license server triad After installing and configuring the license servers on all three computers you must use the following procedure to start each of the servers within one minute of each other Abaqus LICENSING 3 5 UNIX and Linux platforms Start the Abaqus license server by executing the following command from the licensing directory lmgrd c abaquslm lic 1 abaquslm log Windows platforms You must be logged in as Administrator to start the server 1 From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus Licensing Licensing utilities 2 Verify that Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page and select the Start Stop Reread tab 3 Click Start Server FLEXnet license server manager Imgrd The license server manager lmgrd handles the initial contact with the client application programs passing the connection on to the appropriate vendor daemon It also starts and restarts the vendor daemons The lmgrd program is the main daem
139. o graphical user interface or dialog boxes are shown when it is run The client uninstaller removes shortcuts and files installed on the client computer the Abaqus products on the mounted network drive are not affected After running the client uninstaller rebooting the client computer is recommended Rebooting will remove the Abaqus Commands directory from the user s path PATH environment variable 5 Using Abaqus commands The installation procedure creates a unique command for each release of Abaqus This command is written in the Commands directory below the Abaqus parent directory abaqus_dir For example the command to run the initial extended functionality release of Abaqus 6 10 Abaqus 6 10 EF1 is abq610ef1 The command to run subsequent extended functionality releases of Abaqus 6 10 is abq610efn where n is the maintenance delivery The installation procedure also creates a link called abaqus to the command for the latest release of Abaqus installed For a list of all Abaqus command line options use the help command line option with the appropriate Abaqus execution command For example to see the command line options for Abaqus 6 10 EF1 type abq610ef1 help For a detailed description of Abaqus command line options see Chapter 3 Job Execution of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual On Windows platforms the Commands directory path is added automatically to all users paths during installation On UNIX and Linux platforms t
140. oc_root parameter in the abaqus_v6 env file The documentation URL is required in the abaqus_v6 env file to provide access to the HTML documentation from Abaqus The abaqus_v6 env file is located in the abaqus_dir 6 10 n site directory where abaqus_dir is the Abaqus parent directory and n refers to the Abaqus update The required parameter definition is as follows e HTML and PDF documentation installation with web server doc_root http computername port_number v6 10e where computername is the fully qualified domain name of the web server and port_number is the port number used by the web server if required For example a valid parameter definition is doc_root http willow xyz com 2080 v6 10ef e HTML and PDF documentation installation with no web server doc_root file simulia_dir Documentation docs v6 10ef index html1 5 APPENDIX C CONFIGURING Abaqus DOCUMENTATION C 2 2 where simulia_dir is the HTML documentation installation parent directory For example valid parameter definitions are UNIX and Linux platforms doc_root file usr local SIMULIA Documentation docs v6 10ef index html1 Windows platforms doc_root file d SIMULIA Documentation docs v6 10ef index html1 PDF only documentation installation no web server In this case you must set the values of two parameters as follows doc_root_type pdE doc_root simulia_dir where simulia_dir is the path to the installation base directo
141. ocumentation when the installer completes This URL is also written to a log file in the following location simulia_dir Documentation installation_info v6 10ef info log If you selected the existing non Abaqus web server option a sample URL is written to the info log file To access the HTML documentation from the Abaqus products you must provide a valid URL during each subsequent Abaqus product installation 4 If you installed only the PDF documentation the path to the index pdf file is shown To copy the PDF documentation from the DVD without running the installer 1 Find the directory pd _docs on the documentation DVD Copy the entire contents of this directory 2 To view the documentation open the file index pdf in a PDF viewer or web browser You may copy the PDF documentation in accordance with the following terms e Use of this material is governed by your Abaqus software license agreement e Keep the documentation confidential and utilize your best efforts to prevent unauthorized disclosure or use of any Abaqus Program including the Abaqus documentation for such program e Treat all Abaqus Programs including the Abaqus documentation with the same degree of care that you treat like information of your own that you do not want publicly disclosed or the subject of unauthorized access or use e Do not make or permit to be made any more copies of any Abaqus Program including the Abaqus documentation than are authori
142. od executes the job name com analysis script under the UNIX batch command HoldQueue class The HoldQueue class creates a job name com file and exits This class overrides the following base class methods __repr__ This method is reimplemented to provide a useful description submit This method prints a message stating that the job name com script was not submitted and returns a value of 0 LSFQueue class The LSFQueue class submits an analysis to the LSF queue named when the object was instantiated If a name was not specified the analysis is submitted to the default LSF queue The following constructor argument is optional name Name of a valid LSF queue This class overrides the following base class method 4 21 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT submit This method invokes the LSF bsub command to submit the job name com analysis script to an LSF batch cluster and returns the exit status of the bsub command NQSQueue class The NQSQueue class submits an analysis to the NQS queue named when the object was instantiated If a name was not specified the analysis is submitted to the default NQS queue The following constructor argument is optional name Name of a valid NQS queue This class overrides the following base class method submit This method invokes the NQS qsub command to submit the job name com analysis script to an NQS system and returns the exit status of the qsub command
143. on program for FLEXnet Licensing When you invoke 1lmgrd the program looks for a license file that contains information about vendors and features On UNIX and Linux platforms we recommend that you run lmgrd as a non privileged user not root See The FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 for more information on FLEXnet Licensing This manual is available for download from the Licensing section of the Support page at www simulia com Syntax and Options lmgrd c license file list 1 debug log path 2 p local x lmdown x lmremove z v help c license file list Specifies the license files to use 1 debug log path Writes debugging information to the file debug_log_path This option uses the letter 1 not the numeral 1 Prepending debug_log_path with the character appends logging entries 2 p Restricts usage of lmdown see Imdown Section 3 6 2 Imreread see Imreread Section 3 6 6 and lmremove see Imremove Section 3 6 5 to a FLEXnet Licensing administrator who is by default root If there is a UNIX group called Imadmin use is restricted to members of that group If root is not a member of this group root does not have Abaqus LICENSING permission to use any of the three tools listed above If you use 2 p when starting lmgrd no user on Windows platforms can shut down the license server with lmdown local Restricts Imdown and lmreread to be run only from the sam
144. or example the new Abaqus 6 10 Extended Functionality documentation is installed in the same location as the older versions The new Abaqus 6 10 EF documentation files will not overwrite the existing Abaqus 6 10 documentation The Abaqus installer creates a new subdirectory named v6 10ef to hold the Abaqus 6 10 EF documentation see Appendix B Abaqus release directories and files for information on the directory structure If you are using the Abaqus web server software you are prompted to choose whether or not to serve all releases of the documentation simultaneously e If documentation from a previous release of Abaqus is not installed you are prompted for the installation directory This should be the same as your SIMULIA parent directory referred to as simulia_dir The default location is the current working directory on UNIX and Linux platforms and C SIMULIA on Windows platforms You should not install Abaqus documentation in a directory that indicates a specific Abaqus release number The installation procedure creates a subdirectory named Documentation under the specified directory During an HTML plus PDF installation you must select one of the following options e Install and start the Abaqus web server software recommended option to allow search functionality e Install the HTML plus PDF documentation and use an existing non Abaqus web server In this case you must configure your web server software manually to access
145. phicsStartup session defaultGraphicsOptions setValues polygonOffsetConstant 1 0 polygonOffsetSlope 1 2 APPENDIX A SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Appendix A System requirements A 1 Software The system configurations on which this release of Abaqus was developed and prepared for shipment by SIMULIA are listed below The system configurations and requirements may change between releases or maintenance deliveries The latest system configuration information including any additional supported platforms and the Abaqus programs available on those platforms can be found under the System Information section of the Support page at www simulia com In most cases Abaqus is compatible with later versions of the operating system software however it is usually not compatible with earlier versions Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer are supported on a limited number of platforms For more information see the latest system configuration information as described above The following conditions apply to the system configurations e A FORTRAN compiler is required for compiling user subroutines but is not required for running Abaqus without user subroutines e Message Passing Interface MPI components are required to use MPI based parallel execution in Abaqus Standard to use domain level parallelization in Abaqus Explicit or to run any job in Abaqus CFD regardless of the number of CPUs See Visual C and MPI Libraries Section 2 4 1 and check the sy
146. r domains on a network or restricting access to Abaqus license tokens Although it can be stored anywhere and can be given any name you like the recommended location and name for the options file is simulia_dir License ABAQUSLM opt If you do not want to restrict access to Abaqus license tokens you do not need a license options file After creating or modifying a license options file you must use the Lmreread tool to reread the license file and implement the new options see Imreread Section 3 6 6 The options file is also read when the license server is started Some changes to the options file will not take immediate effect unless the license server is restarted A sample options file is shown in Using the options file Section 3 7 and instructions for creating an options file are included in Chapter 5 of the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 listed under Licensing on the Support page at www simulia com F 2 License server operation This section addresses questions that relate to the operation of the license server The answers to these questions usually involve running one of the licensing administration tools F 2 1 How do update the license file for our network license server To update a license file you should terminate your license server replace the old license file with the new license file and restart the license server If necessary you can also update the license file without stopping the license se
147. r graphics adapter Alternatively you can enter the following command in the command line interface session graphicsOptions setValues displayLists OFF Setting drag mode to AS_IS is helpful for fine tuning the parameters Rotating the view interactively will show you if minor adjustments are necessary session graphicsOptions setValues dragMode AS_ IS It is recommended that you tune polygonOffsetConstant first then tune polygonOffsetSlope To tune these parameters you should first display the part that is generated by the example script in Creating a part Section 3 1 of the Abaqus Scripting User s Manual To retrieve the script use the following command in a command prompt window operating system shell abaqus fetch job modelAExample 5 12 CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer Select File Run Script from the main menu bar select the example script from the Run Script dialog box that appears and click OK The example script creates a new viewport however Abaqus should display only one viewport while you are trying to tune the graphics parameters Select any old viewports and delete them by selecting Viewport Delete Current from the main menu bar To tune the polygonOffsetConstant parameter z x 1 From the Views toolbar apply the bottom view E 2 In the command line interface enter the following commands session graphicsOptions setValues polygonOffsetSlope 0 0 session graphicsOptions setValues
148. rce in third party batch queueing systems See the LSF example for token resource in Deriving and using custom queue classes Section 4 3 6 F 3 4 What is the difference between the license queue and a batch queue The batch queue controls how and when jobs are run on a certain computer see Defining analysis batch queues Section 4 2 The license queue is created by the license server when Abaqus jobs have requested more tokens than are currently available A job will not request tokens until it reaches the front of the batch queue and begins execution F 3 5 If we have multiple nonredundant network license servers how do I connect to a specific server The situation with multiple nonredundant license servers is significantly different from the one with redundant servers With redundant servers one acts as the master and the others are backups shadows in case the master goes down With multiple nonredundant servers each one is independent of the others To connect to a specific server you must set the abaquslm_license_file parameter in a local Abaqus environment file abaqus_v6 env either in your home directory or in the current working directory The proper format for the parameter definition is as follows abaquslm_ license _file port license_server_host where license_server_host is the name of the computer on which the license server is running the quotation marks should be included If a license server is using a
149. rior to installing Abaqus on AIX 5 3 systems See Answer 4118 in the SIMULIA Online Support System SOSS A 2 Disk space The disk space requirements to install Abaqus vary depending upon the platform on which Abaqus is installed The Abaqus HTML plus PDF documentation installation requires approximately 2 0 GB The Abaqus product installation requires approximately 700 MB to 1 1 GB depending on the platform The installation procedures provide an estimate of the disk space required for each installation option This disk space estimate does not include disk requirements for running analyses Estimates of actual disk requirements are provided during the analysis input file processor stage of an Abaqus analysis Swap space should typically be set to approximately three times the amount of physical memory installed on the computer Abaqus analyses can create large scratch files that are written to the directories specified by environment file parameters These parameters can be changed from their defaults to point to file systems that are large enough to contain the scratch files These variables are described in Memory and disk management parameters Section 4 1 1 A 3 Memory A minimum of 1 GB of free physical memory is required to run Abaqus at least 2 GB of free physical memory is recommended for adequate performance If Abaqus is page faulting excessively additional memory will reduce the page fault rate as well as the execut
150. rver so that there will be no interruption to Abaqus users Both techniques are described in detail in Updating an Abaqus license file Section 3 2 F 2 2 How can tell if the license server is running The easiest way to see if a license server is running is to execute the command abaqus licensing lmstat This command will list the license servers that are running for a general broadcast To see if a license server is running on a specific computer you can enter the command abaqus licensing lmstat c port license_server_host where icense_server_host is the hostname of the license server that you want to query If the license server is using a port that is not between 27000 and 27009 you must specify the port number as well F 2 APPENDIX F TROUBLESHOOTING Abaqus NETWORK LICENSING F 2 3 How can restart the license server if it is not running You must login on the license server host to restart the server on Windows platforms you must login as Administrator and then run the lmgrd program see FLEXnet license server manager Imgrd Section 3 5 For an alternate method see Starting the server using LMTOOLS Section 3 6 9 F 2 4 How can I terminate an Abaqus license server You use the FLEXnet Licensing administration tool Lmdown to terminate an Abaqus license server If you use 1mdown to terminate a license server that is part of a redundant license server configuration all three license servers in the redun
151. ry Setting the documentation URL in the url js file The documentation URL is required in the url js file to enable links from help windows in Abaqus CAE to associated topics in the Abaqus HTML documentation The url js file is located in the abaqus_dir 6 10 n Help redirects directory where abaqus dir is the Abaqus parent directory and n refers to the Abaqus update The line in the url 4s file should have the following form e HTML documentation installation with web server var baseURL http computername port_number v6 10ef books where computername is the fully qualified domain name of the web server and port_number is the port number used by the web server if required For example a valid definition is var baseURL http willow xyz com 2080 v6 10ef books HTML documentation installation with no web server var baseURL file simulia_dir Documentation docs v6 10ef books where simulia_dir is the HTML documentation installation parent directory For example valid definitions are UNIX and Linux platforms var baseURL file usr local SIMULIA Documentation docs v6 10ef books APPENDIX C CONFIGURING Abaqus DOCUMENTATION Windows platforms var baseURL file d SIMULIA Documentation docs v6 10ef books APPENDIX D ACCESSING REMOTE FILE SYSTEMS FOR INSTALLATION AND EXECUTION Appendix D Accessing remote file systems for installation and execution This appendix describes accessing remote file sys
152. ry by typing the command rm rf Documentation 2 6 2 Windows platforms You can use the Windows uninstall shortcuts provided the Add or Remove Programs tool or the Abaqus silent uninstaller batch files to remove Abaqus documentation The silent uninstallers allow you to automate these tasks from another batch script file The silent uninstallers are available only on Windows platforms You must have Windows Administrator privileges to uninstall Abaqus components Both the Windows uninstall shortcuts and the silent uninstaller batch files generate a log file that you can review The log file indicates whether the uninstall was successful and if you should reboot restart your computer This information is shown in the last two lines of the log file For example Uninstall Status SUCCESS Restart Needed YES RECOMMENDED The Uninstall Status line will indicate either SUCCESS or INCOMPLETE The Restart Needed line will indicate either YES_RECOMMENDED YES REQUIRED or NO The uninstallers may be unable to remove some files for example files that are open in another application In addition the uninstallers remove only directories and files that were written by the Abaqus installer You may want to delete any remaining directories and files manually To remove an installation of HTML and PDF documentation The Abaqus HTML and PDF documentation can be removed in any of the following ways e From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus release Do
153. s users can create their own queue classes to customize the way analysis jobs are executed The new queue classes can be derived from the predefined queue classes to minimize coding by the user The driverQueues module must be imported to instantiate a predefined queue or to derive a custom queue class The predefined classes are described in Queue class Section 4 2 1 and Predefined derived classes Section 4 2 2 In addition examples that illustrate how to extend predefined classes and create custom queue classes are provided in Using predefined derived classes Section 4 3 5 and Deriving and using custom queue classes Section 4 3 6 respectively 4 2 1 Queue class The Queue class is an abstract base class All other analysis batch queue classes are derived from it The class has no explicit constructor or members The following methods of the Queue class are common to all derived classes __repr__ This method returns the class name as a string The string is printed as a description for the queue when abaqus information environment is executed Derived classes should override this method to provide a useful description of the queue objects instantiated from them createScript This method creates a Python script named job name com in the current working directory This script is used to run the analysis This method is called by the analysis execution procedure prior to 4 19 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus
154. s CAE and Abaqus Viewer provide the following two methods for tuning graphics parameters e Select View Graphics Options from the main menu bar Abaqus displays the Graphics Options dialog box shown in Figure 5 1 from which you can select the desired settings This approach allows you to select from only the most commonly used tuning parameters The settings in the Graphics Options dialog box are described in Chapter 7 Configuring graphics display options of the Abaqus CAE User s Manual e Use an Abaqus Scripting Interface command to select the desired settings You can enter the command in the command line interface CLI and modify the values of the tuning parameters This approach provides complete control of all the tuning parameters and is described in Using CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer zi M Hardware IV Use display lists I anti alias lines Fast Accurate Translucency mode Highlight method XOR nd M iew Manipulation Drag mode Fast wireframe Asis Tl Auto fit after rotations M iewport Background C Solid E Top Gradient L Bottom Auto Select IV Allow override OK Apply Defaults Cancel Figure 5 1 The Graphics Options dialog box the Abaqus Scripting Interface to tune the graphics parameters Section 5 3 3 This section also describes how you can use an Abaqus Scripting Interface command to obtain information about the graphics card
155. s not necessary With the recommended default DETECT DETECT setting Abaqus will determine the type of file system that exists An MPI based parallel Abaqus Explicit analysis will use the scratch directory only if a user subroutine is used whereas Abaqus Standard normally writes large temporary files in this directory Running on a local file system will generally improve the performance mp_host_list List of host machine names to be used for an MPI based parallel Abaqus analysis including the number of processors to be used on each machine for example mp_ host _list maple 1 pine 1 oak 2 indicates that ifthe number of cpus specified for the analysis is 4 the analysis will use one processor on a machine called maple one processor on a machine called pine and two processors on a machine called oak The total number of processors defined in the host list has to be greater than or equal to the number of cpus specified for the analysis If the host list is not defined Abaqus will run on the local system When using a supported queuing system this parameter does not need to be defined If it is defined it will get overridden by the queuing environment mp_mode Set this variable equal to MPI to indicate that the MPI components are available on the system Set mp_mode THREADS to use the thread based parallelization method The default value is MPI where applicable mp_mpi_implementation This variable determines the underlyin
156. s provides a utility that automatically generates both summary and daily license usage reports according to a monthly or quarterly schedule The utility creates a script containing commands to generate the reports then it installs a scheduled task on Windows platforms or a crontab entry on UNIX or Linux platforms to execute the script on a monthly or quarterly basis The debug log file can be located on a server that is remote from the computer on which automated license usage reporting is scheduled If desired you can instruct the utility to automatically e mail the reports to a specified address as soon as they are generated You should create a new directory dedicated to license usage reporting and run the scheduled license usage reporting utility from within this directory The script for report generation usage_report bat or usage_report sh a utility configuration file schLicRpt cfg and the generated reports are all saved to the directory in which you run the utility Generated reports use the following file naming convention abaqus_usagen_sitelD_date csv 3 21 Abaqus LICENSING where siteID is the customer number that SIMULIA assigned to your site and the date is written numerically in yymmdd format The type of usage report is indicated by n 1 indicates a summary usage report and 2 indicates a daily usage report For example abaqus_usage2_01ABCD_080515 csv is the file name for a daily usage report created at site 01LABCD on Ma
157. s submitted at your site to run in batch mode run_mode BATCH admin run_mode no_aqua The no_aqua parameter would typically be used to provide a friendly message to users if Abaqus Aqua is not licensed at your site 4 29 CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer 5 Customizing Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer This chapter describes user interface customization printer configuration and graphics card tuning for Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer Platform dependencies sometimes exist for Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer These dependencies can change between releases therefore they are listed on the Support page at www simulia com where the latest information is published 5 1 Customizing the user interface To customize the Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer user interface you can specify general display properties on Windows platforms Settings on other platforms such as Linux may also affect the appearance of the user interface and some of its functions 5 1 1 Hardware acceleration all platforms With some graphics devices Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer may fail when hardware acceleration is turned on It is possible to turn off hardware acceleration if completely necessary although it is not recommended Disabling hardware acceleration will severely degrade graphics performance in Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer You can disable hardware acceleration using one of the following methods Linux platforms Start Abaqus CAE or Abaqus V
158. simulia_dir License directory where simulia_dir is the SIMULIA parent directory 2 Copy the license file that you received to the licensing directory on one of the server machines Rename this license file abaquslm lic 3 Edit the abaquslm 1lic file and replace the string this host with the actual hostname of your computer Verify that the hostname corresponds to the host id provided Use hostname domain_name if you have client machines that are not local to the server network 4 Add the network port number to the SERVER line It is recommended that you do not use a port number between 27000 and 27009 5 Repeat this process for each SERVER line 6 Append the following keywords to the first SERVER line PRIMARY_IS MASTER HEARTBEAT _INTERVAL 60 For example SERVER bifrost simulia com 69084992 2501 PRIMARY_IS MASTER HEARTBEAT INTERVAL 60 SERVER tank simulia com 69094954 2501 SERVER willow simulia com 69094344 2501 VENDOR ABAQUSLM where each server is configured to use port number 2501 and the numbers beginning with 690 are the host ids provided in the abaqus1m lic file for each server host The port number must be assigned for each server but the number need not be the same on every server Note Each line in the license file must be 80 characters or less You can use a backslash character to indicate a line continuation keywords that appear on the line after a backslash are considered part of the previous line in the lice
159. sks If the DVD does not mount automatically issue the DVD mount command for the platform on which you are installing Abaqus 2 1 1 Documentation installation Online documentation for all Abaqus releases including general and extended functionality releases is provided in two formats HTML and PDF There are several options for installing the documentation and making it available to your Abaqus users e Install HTML and PDF on a server on your network and use web server software to serve both formats to users this is the most common choice e Install multiple copies of the PDF files on individual users machines where they can view it locally using a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader e Skip the documentation installer and simply copy the PDF files from the DVD to any computers or disks You must have write permission in the directory where documentation is installed Administrator privileges are required to run the installer on Windows platforms It is recommended that you install the documentation for the Abaqus Version 6 10 Extended Functionality release even if you have already installed the documentation for the Abaqus Version 6 10 general release Unlike standard maintenance deliveries the Extended Functionality release includes new features and functionality that are not available in the previous general release The documentation provided with the Extended Functionality release is updated to cover these new features and
160. ssing is available The default value for this parameter is 1 domains The number of parallel domains in Abaqus Explicit If the value is greater than 1 the domain decomposition will be performed regardless of the values of the parallel and cpus variables However if parallel DOMAIN the value of cpus must be evenly divisible into the value of domains If this parameter is not set the number of domains defaults to the number of processors used during the analysis run if parallel DOMAIN or to 1 if parallel LOOP max_cpus Maximum number of processors allowed if parallel processing is available If this parameter is not set the number of processors allowed equals the number of available processors on the system 4 3 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT mp_file_system Type of file system available for an MPI based parallel Abaqus analysis The parameter has to be set to a tuple for example mp_file_system SHARED LOCAL The first item in the tuple refers to the directory where the job was submitted while the second refers to the job s scratch directory If the file system hosting a directory is LOCAL Abaqus will copy the required analysis files to the remote host machines and at the end of the run copy the output files back In this case it must be possible to create the job s directory structure on all the hosts in mp_host_list A SHARED file system means that the host machines share the same file system and file transfer i
161. stName server queueName Jarge directory tmp addImportCallback job initQueues Visualization preferences def setVisPreferences module userData import visualization session defaultOdbDisplay contourOptions setValues renderStyle SHADED visibleEdges EXTERIOR contourStyle CONTINUOUS addImportCallback visualization setVisPreferences Indented text must be valid Python commands For more queue examples see Chapter 18 The Job module of the Abaqus CAE User s Manual 4 3 4 Using a web browser not supported by Abaqus Abaqus provides support only for the Firefox web browser on Linux platforms however it does provide the ability to use a web browser not supported by Abaqus for viewing HTML documentation Examples are shown for setting the browser_type and browser_path system customization parameters in this situation The first example illustrates the parameter settings to specify a web browser not supported by Abaqus browser_type CUSTOM_BROWSER browser path full_path_to_browser argumentl argument2 ete where the first string contains the full path to the web browser and subsequent strings are arguments to customize the browser behavior Refer to the specific web browser documentation for valid arguments The second example illustrates the parameter settings to specify the Opera browser not supported by Abaqus as the web browser browser_type CUSTOM_BROWSER browser path usr local
162. stems information web page mentioned above for supported MPI software and hardware interconnects e The latest requirements for viewing Abaqus documentation including supported web browsers for HTML documentation and PDF viewers for PDF documentation can be found on the systems information web page mentioned above Table A 1 through Table A 5 list the requirements for platforms to be supported in Abaqus 6 10 Table A 1 Windows x86 32 Processor x86 32 Operating system Windows XP Professional SP3 Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista Windows 7 Compilers Intel Visual Fortran 10 1 and 11 1 Microsoft Visual C 2008 SP1 also known as Visual C 9 0 Microsoft Visual C 2010 SP1 also known as Visual C 10 0 DVD Mounted automatically The minimum required processor is compatible with Intel Pentium IV or AMD processors supporting the SSE2 instructions set APPENDIX A SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Table A 2 Windows x86 64 Processor Operating system x86 64 Windows XP 64 bit SP2 Windows Vista 64 SP2 Windows 7 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2008 SP2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows HPC Server 2008 Compilers Intel Visual Fortran 10 1 and 11 1 Microsoft Visual C 2008 SP1 also known as Visual C 9 0 Microsoft Visual C 2010 SP1 also known as Visual C 10 0 DVD Mounted automatically This platform supports 64 bit addressing which enables memory usag
163. syntax and options of the FLEXnet Licensing administration tools You can download this manual from the Licensing section of the Support page at www simulia com Abaqus LICENSING On Windows platforms the licensing tools are also available using the FLEXnet Licensing toolchest LMTOOLS The LMTOOLS toolchest can be accessed from the Start menu or by executing one of the following commands abaqus licensing lmtools or simulia_dir License 1mtools The following sections describe the syntax and options of several commonly used FLEXnet Licensing administration tools and LMTOOLS procedures e Imdiag Section 3 6 1 e Imdown Section 3 6 2 e Imhostid Section 3 6 3 e Impath Section 3 6 4 e Imremove Section 3 6 5 e Imreread Section 3 6 6 e Imstat Section 3 6 7 e Installing licensing as a Windows service Section 3 6 8 e Starting the server using LMTOOLS Section 3 6 9 3 6 1 Imdiag The lmdiag tool allows you to diagnose problems when you cannot check out a license Syntax and Options lmdiag c license file list n feature keyword value c license file list Diagnose the specified files n Run in non interactive mode 1mdiag will not prompt for any input in this mode In this mode extended connection diagnostics see below are not available feature Diagnose this feature only keyword value If a license file contains multiple lines for a particular feature you can select
164. t value is OFF submit This abstract method must be implemented by a derived class This method is called by the analysis execution procedure to submit the analysis to a queue The submit method must return an integer a value of 0 indicates success and a nonzero value indicates failure When this method is called the analysis execution procedure supplies the following required arguments options A dictionary containing the analysis options env A dictionary of environment variables available to the process Most derived classes call the spawn method from this method and return its exit status 4 20 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT 4 2 2 Predefined derived classes The following analysis batch queue classes are derived from the Queue base class AtQueue class The AtQueue class executes an analysis using the UNIX at command This class overrides the following base class methods __repr__ This method returns a string describing the class submit This method executes the UNIX at command to run the job name com analysis script at the time specified on the command line after option If the after option is not specified on the command line a QueueError exception is raised BatchQueue class The BatchQueue class executes an analysis using the UNIX batch command This class overrides the following base class methods __repr__ This method returns a string describing the class submit This meth
165. t each integration point For example requesting history output of the tensor variable S stress for a C3D10M element will generate 24 history output requests 6 components x 4 integration points When requesting history output of vector and tensor valued variables it is recommended that individual components be selected where applicable In cases where large amounts of history output are required it is recommended that the data be written to the output database odb as field output from which history data can be extracted using the Visualization module of Abaqus CAE madymo_home Full path name to the directory containing the MADYMO installation odb_output_by_default If this parameter is set to ON output database output will be generated automatically If this parameter is set to OFF output database request keywords must be placed in an input file to obtain output database output and to allow the analysis to be restarted The default value is ON onCaeGraphicsStartup Optional function to be executed before Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer begins This function allows the user to change the graphics options See Tuning graphics cards Section 5 3 for more information on this function This function should not normally be changed onCaeStartup Optional function to be executed before Abaqus CAE begins See Customizing Abaqus CAE startup Section 4 3 3 for examples of this function 4 7 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus E
166. t need to install a new license server Abaqus 6 10 licensing uses FLEXnet Licensing Version 10 8 7 The licensing installation procedure can be used for the following scenarios e to install the FLEXnet Licensing administration tools and to configure and start the Abaqus 6 10 license server automatically or e to install only the FLEXnet Licensing administration tools An existing license server from a previous version of FLEXnet Licensing is upgraded automatically during the installation procedure if it was previously installed and configured using the Abaqus licensing installation procedure If the installation procedure detects an existing license server on your machine from a version of FLEXnet Licensing higher than Version 10 8 7 you have the option of either overwriting the existing server or terminating the installation procedure To update your license file without overwriting the existing license server see the procedure in Updating an Abaqus license file Section 3 2 The commands and options used to install the Abaqus license server or to stop and remove an existing license server are listed in Licensing installation Section 2 1 2 For redundant license server configurations you can install the license administration tools and configure the license server but you will need to start the license servers manually see Redundant license server configurations Section 3 4 If you choose to install only the license admi
167. t use the lmremove tool to free license tokens used for analysis jobs as it will not have the intended effect You can use lmremove to free Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer license tokens you must first obtain token information using the Lms tat tool for an example see Imstat Section 3 6 7 F 2 7 Can I see where my job is in the license queue No only log file information is available When an analysis job is in the license queue information about the queue status is written to the log or status file for the job every 30 seconds Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer interactive sessions are not queued 5 APPENDIX F TROUBLESHOOTING Abaqus NETWORK LICENSING F 2 8 Can I see which users are using the Abaqus licenses The command simulia _dir License lmstat a where simulia dir is the SIMULIA parent directory will list users and the license features that they are using For more information see Imstat Section 3 6 7 F 2 9 Do have to install new license keys every time I install a new F 2 F 3 release of Abaqus Yes you must obtain new license keys from your local office or representative when you upgrade to a new general release of Abaqus for example from Abaqus 6 9 3 to Abaqus 6 10 1 The new license keys will run previous releases of Abaqus that used FLEX m or FLEXnet Licensing Maintenance deliveries and extended functionality releases do not require new license keys within the same general release For example a
168. t value for polygonOffsetSlope Figure 5 5 Correct value for polygonOffsetSlope 5 3 4 Making your graphics configuration permanent Once you are satisfied with the values you have specified for the tuning parameters you can make the changes permanent by including an onCaeGraphicsStartup function in your environment file a CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer abaqus_v6 env To avoid conflicts with other graphics settings you should add the customized onCaeGraphicsStartup function only to the environment file in your home directory see Using the Abaqus environment file Section 4 1 for details on environment file location and execution The members of the DefaultGraphicsOptions object determine the default graphics settings that are enabled when you start a session and when you click Defaults in the Graphics Options dialog box You can view the default graphics settings by entering the following command in the command line interface print session defaultGraphicsOptions You use the setValues method in the environment file abaqus _v6 env to modify the members of the DefaultGraphicsOptions object To set your default graphics options in the environment file you must use the session defaultGraphicsOptions object instead of the session graphicsOptions object that you modified from the command line interface The following example environment file configures your Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer graphics settings def onCaeGra
169. t_value a Displays all information license file list Specifies the license files to use feature Displays the users of feature If feature is not specified usage information for all features is displayed feature Displays information from the FEATURE INCREMENT line for the specified feature or for all features if feature is not specified server Displays the status of all license files in VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE on server or on all servers if server is not specified vendor Lists all users of the specified vendor s features timeout_value Sets the connection timeout to timeout_value This limits the amount of time lmstat spends attempting to connect to server 3 15 Abaqus LICENSING Note The lmstat a command is a potentially expensive command With many active users this command generates a lot of network activity The lmremove tool requires the output of the Imstat a command as shown in the example below Example The output for the command simulia_dir License 1lmstat a where simulia_dir is the SIMULIA parent directory looks similar to the following License server status 27000 firestar License file s on firestar simulia dir License abaquslm lic firestar license server UP MASTER v10 8 Vendor daemon status on firestar ABAQUSLM UP vi0 8 Feature usage info Users of cae Total of 4 licenses issued Total of 1 license in use cae v6 10 vendor ABAQUSLM
170. tems for Abaqus installation and execution D 1 Accessing the installation files from a remotely mounted DVD This section describes the procedure to access the installation files from a remote DVD device The DVD device must be properly mounted If the device does not mount automatically check the DVD mount command for the platform on which the device exists Once you have completed the following steps you can use the installation procedures to install Abaqus UNIX platforms 1 Locate the Abaqus products DVD 2 Copy the following items from the top level of the DVD to a location that is accessible by the target computer e The directory and its entire contents corresponding to the platform on which you are installing e The common directory and its entire contents e The plugins directory applicable only for platforms that support interactive products this directory exists only in the general release not in maintenance deliveries e The setup executable file The UNIX utilities cp and rep are convenient for copying these items When copying files between different platforms particularly between UNIX and Windows special care may be needed to preserve the original file permissions and the file name case In general read and execute permissions on all files are sufficient for proper execution 3 Create an Abaqus parent directory SIMULIA Abaqus on the machine where you want to install Abaqus see Installation procedures S
171. that you are using Table 5 1 shows the tuning parameters that are available from Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer The table also shows the standard value of each parameter and whether you can use the Graphics Options dialog box to modify it Certain parameters can be modified only before starting an Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer session see Making your graphics configuration permanent Section 5 3 4 for details on modifying parameters on startup a CUSTOMIZING Abaqus CAE AND Abaqus Viewer Table 5 1 Tuning parameters Parameter Standard Modify using Modify only value Graphics Options on startup dialog box displayLists On Yes No antiAlias On Yes No translucencyMode More accurate Yes No than fast highlightMethod Hardware Yes No highlightMethodHint Hardware Yes No dragMode As is Yes No autoFitAfter Rotate Off Yes No backgroundColor 333366 Yes No backgroundBottomColor acaccl Yes No backgroundStyle Gradient Yes No backgroundOverride On Yes No doubleBuffering On No No polygonOffsetConstant 0 0 to 100 0 No No polygonOffsetSlope 0 0 to 100 0 No No printPolygonOffsetConstant 0 0 to 100 0 No No printPolygonOffsetSlope 0 0 to 100 0 No No texture Mapping On No No printTexture Mapping On No No vertexArrays On No No vertexArraysInDisplayLists On No No backfaceCulling On No No directRendering On No Yes accelerateOffScreen Off No Yes backingStore On No No hardwareAcceleration On No Yes hardware Overlay Non
172. this configuration is required for an Abaqus Standard job the user should move the save directory to the NFS mounted file system before moving the scratch directory Exporting the display This configuration is relevant only for Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer In this configuration Abaqus is installed on a remote file system and the CPU save directory and scratch directory are located on the same remote computer which is accessed through remote login All processing occurs on the remote computer and only output messages or graphics are exported to the local computer and display This APPENDIX D ACCESSING REMOTE FILE SYSTEMS FOR INSTALLATION AND EXECUTION method is known to cause performance problems Minor incompatibilities between OpenGL and GLX libraries can introduce significant graphics problems and in some cases can prohibit Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer from running The use of Abaqus in this configuration is not supported and should be avoided whenever possible D 3 Using a network ODB connector Users can create a network ODB connector to access an output database on a remote computer see Accessing an output database on a remote computer Section 9 3 of the Abaqus CAE User s Manual Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer can start the server on the remote system and assign port numbers if the following are true e The user name on the remote host is the same as the user name on the local system e The remote shell command rsh or th
173. to be greater than the available free space Abaqus CAE reduces it to a value that is equal to the available free space plugin_central_dir Full pathname of the directory containing Abaqus CAE plug ins In most cases this is a directory at a central location that is accessible to all users at your site For more information see Chapter 80 The Plug in toolset of the Abaqus CAE User s Manual usub_lib_dir Full path name of the directory containing optional user defined libraries of Abaqus Standard and or Abaqus Explicit user subroutines Valid user subroutine libraries are platform specific but the file base names are the same for all platforms The base names are standardU explicitU and explicitU D Use this variable to avoid the cost of recompiling and or relinking frequently used user subroutines The abaqus make utility is used to create the shared libraries for use with this variable see Making user defined executables and subroutines Section 3 2 13 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual User libraries created by the user option of the Abaqus Standard and Abaqus Explicit execution procedure will supersede any user libraries in this directory verbose If this parameter is in the environment file the execution procedure will print more information on job submission Possible values are ON OFF 1 2 and 3 Set the value to ON or 1 to print the commands used to run application executables and some performance data Set th
174. twork odb connectors by removing dmbwtr and dmbwtrd from the abaqus_dir release External dmbwtr directory where abaqus_dir is the Abaqus parent directory and release is the release of Abaqus you are using APPENDIX E VERIFICATION PROCEDURE Appendix E Verification procedure The verification procedure checks the installation of all licensed Abaqus products and reports on the success or failure of verification for each product The verification procedure runs automatically during the Abaqus installation procedure but only a subset of the products are verified see the install option below for details The verification procedure can be run also as an Abaqus command option and from the Start menu on Windows platforms at any time following the installation The procedure runs verification problems for each licensed product and compares the results to reference values The command line options are not affected by license type that is the verification procedure attempts to verify all products named in the command Before the verification procedure is run licensing and system requirements are checked for the selected product s If a teaching academic license is detected the verification procedure that is run during installation checks only Abaqus Standard Abaqus Explicit and Abaqus CAE Product verification is skipped if the product is not licensed or if it fails to meet system requirements The command line options NoLicenseCheck and NoSystemCh
175. ues are used to configure the way that Abaqus analysis jobs are run They are particularly useful for integrating Abaqus with third party batch queueing systems Two pieces of information are needed to run an Abaqus job the syntax of the command used to execute the job and the job specific information The command used to execute the job is obtained from a queue definition in the Abaqus environment file The job specific information is obtained from the command line options and the analysis parameters defined in the Abaqus environment file The command line options are described in Chapter 3 Job Execution of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual The command syntax and the job specific information are used to construct a command to run an Abaqus job in an analysis queue An object oriented interface and a string based interface are available for defining the analysis batch queues The object oriented interface is preferred because it is easily customized and extended This section discusses the object oriented interface see String based batch queue parameters Section 4 1 8 for information on the string based interface A set of predefined built in queue classes is available within an Abaqus environment file These classes can be instantiated to create user defined queue objects See Object oriented batch queue parameter Section 4 1 7 for information on the queues environment file parameter In addition to the predefined queue classe
176. ult the license usage report will not distinguish between different locations in the report Imhanglimit The number of minutes that an Abaqus client will wait in the license queue to obtain licenses if no licenses are currently available The default value of 0 forces the job to remain in the license queue indefinitely unless it is killed by the user Imlicensequeuing This parameter indicates whether an Abaqus analysis job or an Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer session using the noGUI option should queue for a license if one is not available The default value is ON If this parameter is set to OFF jobs and Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer sessions will terminate immediately if a license is not available Imlog This parameter indicates whether license usage data should be written to the FLEXnet debug log file To use the Abaqus license usage reporting utility see Reporting license usage data Section 3 8 4 15 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT this parameter must be set to ON which is the default value To suppress license usage data in the debug log file set this parameter equal to OFF Imqueuesleep The number of seconds that an Abaqus client will wait before checking the license queue to see if enough tokens are free The default value is 30 seconds which is the minimum allowed Increasing this value will decrease network traffic when license queuing occurs Imsvrdownlimit The number of minutes that an Abaqus client wil
177. un at the end of an analysis even if the execution procedure detects that it is necessary to postprocess the output database file The default value is ON average_by_section This parameter is used only for an Abaqus Standard analysis If this parameter is set equal to OFF the averaging regions for output written to the data dat file and results i1 file are based on the structure of the elements If this parameter is set equal to ON the averaging regions also take into account underlying values of element properties and material constants In problems with many section and or material definitions the default value of OFF will in general give much better performance than the nondefault value of ON See Output to the data and results files Section 4 1 2 of the Abaqus Analysis User s Manual for further details on the averaging scheme cae_error_limit This variable defines the maximum number of error messages that will be sent from an analysis job to Abaqus CAE it is valid only for Abaqus CAE The default value is 50 cae_no_parts_input_file This variable defines the format of the input file generated by Abaqus CAE it is valid only for Abaqus CAE If this variable is set to ON Abaqus CAE will generate an input file without parts and assemblies The default value is OFF For more information see Writing input files without parts and assemblies Section 9 9 4 of the Abaqus CAE User s Manual cae_warning limit Th
178. uning graphics cards This section contains the information that you need to configure Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer for a graphics adapter that is not yet qualified 5 3 1 Why is tuning necessary SIMULIA tunes and qualifies a limited set of graphics adapters prior to each release Tuning parameters for these graphics adapters are included in Abaqus However new graphics adapters and new drivers for existing graphics adapters become available between releases Tuning may enable you to take advantage of these new adapters and drivers without waiting for a new release of Abaqus CAE or Abaqus Viewer Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer use OpenGL for high speed graphics rendering While the OpenGL standard has strict conformance tests some features are implementation dependent and require tuning to function correctly Tuning a new graphics adapter or driver ensures that Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer graphics are rendered correctly and that maximum rendering performance is obtained for each system You can find the latest information on qualified graphics adapters on the Support page at www simulia com If you read the information on this page and follow the tuning procedures described in this section you should be able to render Abaqus CAE and Abaqus Viewer graphics correctly and with maximum performance If you continue to experience problems you should contact your local technical support office for assistance 5 3 2 How can I tune the parameters Abaqu
179. using a port that is not between 27000 and 27009 you must include the port number with the server host name Items in the list are colon separated on UNIX platforms and semicolon separated on Windows platforms Each entry must begin with an symbol or a port number and an symbol Make sure that users make similar changes to any environment files in their home and local directories How can tell if I am using a redundant server configuration View your Abaqus license file abaquslm 1lic located in the directory simulia_dir License If you are using a redundant server configuration there will be three SERVER lines in the license file The server names should be different for each line although the port number may be the same for all three For example SERVER bifrost simulia com 69084992 27003 SERVER tank simulia com 69094954 27003 SERVER willow simulia com 69094344 27003 VENDOR ABAQUSLM APPENDIX F TROUBLESHOOTING Abaqus NETWORK LICENSING F 3 3 What if run the analysis job in a batch queue Licenses are not checked out until the analysis actually begins so tokens will not be held by a job ina batch queue However if a job executes in a batch queue and sufficient tokens are not available the job will be placed in the license queue until the tokens are free which will prevent the rest of the jobs in the queue from executing To prevent wasted time in the batch queue it is recommended that tokens be registered as a resou
180. uss the compile options 4 9 5 CUSTOMIZING THE Abaqus ENVIRONMENT file_format Format of results file output ASCII or BINARY This parameter is valid only for Abaqus Standard The default value is BINARY link_exe Command to link a postprocessing program The command used at SIMULIA is included in the abaqus_v6 env file in the site subdirectory of the Abaqus installation This command should not normally be changed It can be either a string or a tuple of strings If the command is a tuple of strings each string must represent a single command line argument The values of the placemarkers are determined by the Abaqus execution procedure or by the command line options and cannot be modified by the user User specified external libraries can be linked with the usual link commands The following placemarkers are used in link_exe J The job name in this case the name of the executable to be created F The name of the object file created from the user s source file M_ The name of the internally created main object file B The name of the shared library of utility functions O The list of utility shared libraries for the output database application public interface L The list of directories containing shared libraries HP only link_sl Command to link a shared library The command used at SIMULIA is included in the abaqus_v6 env file in the site subdirectory of the Abaqus installation This command once its placemarkers have been
181. utilities 2 Verify that Configuration using Services is enabled on the Service License File tabbed page and select the Server Diags tab 3 Click Perform Diagnostics Imdown The 1lmdown tool allows for the graceful shutdown of selected license daemons both lmgrd and selected vendor daemons on all machines Syntax and Options Imdown c license_file_list vendor vendor q a11 Abaqus LICENSING c license file list Use the specified license files Specifying c license _file list is always recommended with Imdown vendor vendor Shut down only this vendor daemon 1lmgrd continues running q Do not prompt or print a header Otherwise Lmdown asks Are you sure y n all If multiple servers are specified automatically shut down all of them q is implied with all You can protect the unauthorized execution of Lmdown when you start up the license manager daemon 1lmgrd Shutting down the servers causes users to lose their licenses See the local 2 p and x options in FLEXnet license server manager Imgrd Section 3 5 for details about securing access to lmdown If lmdown encounters more than one server for example if c specifies a directory with many lic files a choice of license servers to shut down is presented Note On UNIX platforms do not use kill 9 to shut down the license servers On Windows platforms if you must use the Task Manager to kill the FLEXnet Licensing service
182. ver debug log file typically named abaqus1m 1og 2 22 INSTALLING Abaqus To remove the Abaqus products Abaqus products can be removed in any of the following ways e From the Start menu select Programs Abaqus release Uninstall Abaqus release where release refers to the Abaqus release e From the Start menu select Settings Control Panel Add or Remove Programs Select Abaqus and click Change or Remove Programs e To use the Abaqus product silent uninstaller execute the following batch file from the command line or from another batch script file simulia_dir abaqus_dir release installation_info uninstaller silent_product_uninstall bat The product uninstallers generate the following log file simulia_dir abaqus_dir release installation_info uninstall_log log The uninstallers remove the Abaqus shortcuts from all user profiles The Windows client uninstall program see Client installation for Windows Section 2 4 4 removes shortcuts and files installed on the client computer the Abaqus products on the mounted network drive are not affected After running the client uninstaller rebooting the client computer is recommended Rebooting will remove the Abaqus commands directory from the user s path PATH environment variable 2 6 Uninstalling Abaqus documentation This section describes how to remove Abaqus documentation from your computer 2 6 1 UNIX and Linux platforms The following procedures explain how to
183. w license file Abaqus LICENSING The license file that you update must maintain its file name and path name location If either the file name or path name change you should uninstall licensing and then run the licensing installation procedure see Chapter 2 Installing Abaqus The default name of the Abaqus license file is abaquslm lic You can determine the name of the Abaqus license file by running the command simulia_dir License 1lmstat c port license_server_host where simulia_dir refers to the SIMULIA parent directory and icense_server_host is the hostname of the license server If the license server is using a port that is not between 27000 and 27009 you must specify the port number as well If your Abaqus license features are integrated with other products using a combined FLEXnet license file replace the Abaqus licensing information in the combined license file with the updated information You must run the FLEXnet Licensing tool lmreread see Imreread Section 3 6 6 to force the license server to reread the new license file For more information on combined license files see The FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10 8 which is available for download from the Licensing section of the Support page at www simulia com 3 3 Upgrading a license server and administration tools Abaqus 6 10 licensing requires FLEXnet Licensing Version 10 8 7 the license server must be upgraded if it is an earlier version You can
184. www simulia com The following is a sample options file INCLUDEALL INTERNET 192 168 0 RESERVE 5 abaqus USER robert RESERVE 10 abaqus HOST demeter MAX 5 abaqus USER jim EXCLUDE abaqus USER khan EXCLUDE viewer HOST guardian In this options file e Connections are accepted only from machines with the IP addresses 192 168 0 e Five tokens of feature abaqus are reserved for user robert e Ten tokens of feature abaqus are reserved for users on host demeter e The user jim is limited to five tokens of feature abaqus at a time e The user khan is excluded from accessing feature abaqus e The users on host guardian are excluded from accessing feature viewer Abaqus Viewer Reporting license usage data This section describes methods for creating license usage reports If your Abaqus license server is on a wide area network WAN and Abaqus users in different locations receive technical support and customer service from more than one regional SIMULIA office you are required to submit license usage reports to SIMULIA For more information about reporting requirements see Answer 2604 in the SIMULIA Online Support System The SIMULIA Online Support System is accessible through the My Support page at www simulia com The reporting tools are available to all Abaqus licensees Two utilities are provided with Abaqus to generate license usage reports e The usage utility described in Manually creating license usage reports Section 3 8
185. y 15 2008 To run the utility use the following command abaqus schLicRpt The utility will prompt you for the required information including the location of the debug log file the frequency of report generation and if you choose to e mail the reports the fully qualified domain name of your SMTP server and the e mail address to which reports are sent If you run the utility again from the same directory default settings will be provided during the configuration process based on the contents of the saved configuration file You can therefore make minor modifications to the reporting configuration settings without reentering all of the required information You must have access to the schTasks exe utility on Windows or crontab utility on UNIX or Linux to run the scheduled license reporting utility For best performance it is recommended that you execute the utility on the Abaqus license server host computer which is possible only if Abaqus products have been installed on this computer The utility should be executed only on one computer within your site Otherwise you will generate duplicate usage reports and may degrade the performance of the license server when the reports are generated Use the following procedures to remove automatically generated reports from your system UNIX and Linux platforms To list current crontab entries run the following command crontab 1 To edit the current crontab entries run the following comman
186. y along with Abaqus These libraries are required to run Abaqus On Windows x86 32 platforms the 32 bit 2005 and 2008 runtime libraries are required and installed On Windows x86 64 platforms both the 32 bit 2005 and 2008 libraries and 64 bit 2005 and 2008 libraries are required and installed Installation of the Microsoft Visual C 2005 and 2008 runtime libraries can instead be performed independently of the Abaqus product installation if necessary by selecting Install Microsoft Visual C 2005 SP1 and 2008 SP1 Runtime Libraries from the startup screen Alternatively you can execute the following files on the Abaqus Licensing amp Products DVD win86 32 2008 SP1_vcredist_x86 exe 32 bit libraries win86 32 2005 SP1_vcredist_x86 exe 32 bit libraries win86 64 2008 SP1_vcredist_x86 exe 32 bit libraries win86 64 2005 SP1_vcredist_x86 exe 32 bit libraries win86 64 2008 SP1_vcredist_x64 exe 64 bit libraries win86 64 2005 SP1_vcredist_x64 exe 64 bit libraries Message Passing Interface MPI components must be installed to use MPI based parallel job execution in Abaqus Standard to use domain level parallelization in Abaqus Explicit or to run any job in Abaqus CFD regardless of the number of CPUs If your Abaqus users will be running these types of simulations you must have the required MPI components preinstalled or allow the Abaqus installer to install them for you e On Windows x86 64 platforms the Abaqus product installer automati
187. zed by your Abaqus software license agreement INSTALLING Abaqus 2 1 2 Licensing installation If you already have an Abaqus Version 6 10 license server installed and running on your network you do not need to install a new license server for the Abaqus Version 6 10 Extended Functionality release proceed to installation of the Abaqus products as described in Abaqus product installation Section 2 1 3 If you do not have a previously installed Abaqus 6 10 license server follow the instructions below to install one for Abaqus 6 10 EF You must have an Abaqus 6 10 license file to set up an Abaqus license server Abaqus 6 10 licensing uses FLEXnet Licensing Version 10 8 7 Select the licensing installation you want to perform from the following scenarios e Automatic configuration is recommended for most users particularly those whose primary responsibility is not computer system or network administration Use the installation procedure to install configure and start the Abaqus license server for you automatically An existing license server using a version of FLEXnet Licensing prior to Version 10 8 7 is upgraded automatically during the installation procedure if it was previously installed and configured using the Abaqus licensing installation procedure For redundant license servers the installation will install and configure the Abaqus license servers automatically but you will have to manually start each server Use this method for eas

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