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Abaqus release 6.12-2 allows a user to check if a CAD connection between Abaqus/CAE and a CAD system (Pro/E, CATIA V5, SolidWorks etc) is already enabled or not. This can be achieved using isCADConnectionEnabled( (CADName) method in the Session object where CADName is a String specifying the CAD system.  This method returns a Boolean indicating if the CAD connection is enabled or not.

It is a very useful method if the user is setting up the CAD connection via scripting. Without this method, users will have to enable the connection multiple times thus ending up with different port number to be used by the CAD system to communicate with Abaqus/CAE.