A defect is Potentially Serious when one behavior should occur, but the software is providing a wrong result or behavior that is not obvious to the user.  A defect is classified as Potentially Serious without regard for the frequency at which it may occur.

This article includes a spreadsheet listing of the SIMULIA potentially serious errors.

This Q&A article discusses the Abaqus CAE plaug-in for generating the rough surfaces. This plug-in can be accessed from all modules of Abaqus CAE. To generate the rough surface, you need to define the geometric information, type of surface generator, and input parameters for surface generator.

A plug-in is a piece of software that installs itself into another application to extend the capabilities of that application. Abaqus plug-ins execute Abaqus Scripting Interface and Abaqus GUI Toolkit commands, and they provide a way to customize Abaqus/CAE for your particular needs or preferences.

Several plug-ins are provided on the Abaqus installation CD. The portal provides example plug-ins as well as access to a community of users that fosters the advance of the Abaqus Scripting Interface and the Abaqus GUI Toolkit. You can also write your own plug-ins.

You can execute your physics simulation on your local machine (using Local Interactive mode and Local Non-interactive) or on the Cloud 1. The simulation execution location will be one of the parameters affecting the results computation location.

You can save simulation results on the Cloud server or on the local file system for each analysis case in your simulation.

The procedure to compile and link post processing programs using the standalone Abaqus ODB API is platform and version dependent. The platform and version dependent information is provided in platform specific archives available for download with each release of the standalone Abaqus ODB API. The ODB API kit may also be extracted from the Abaqus product installation.

The output database must be created by or upgraded to the same version of Abaqus as that of the ODB API used to compile and link the application.

Please see the SIMULIA Platforms & Configuration Support page for additional information on performance test data and detailed descriptions of the benchmark models. Select the link for the release of interest, and then select the link to the performance data.

Environment set-up consists primarily of assigning proper values to memory management parameters in the abaqus_v6.env file. There are no environment file parameters that control memory use by Abaqus/Explicit (explicit.exe) and the Abaqus/Explicit packager (package.exe). The default memory value is usually sufficient for most systems.

When building Abaqus user subroutines or post-processing programs, Abaqus requires access to both a compiler and linker.  Compilation and linking are performed in separate steps.

In order for Abaqus to locate the required compiler(s) and linker, the compiler executables should be located in one of the directories defined in your PATH environment variable. The PATH environment variable is used by the system to search for executables to run. The PATH variable must include the directory of the compiler executables and other executables in order for the system to find them.

When running a design exploration study, the cost is reduced based on the number of design points computed.  The number of tokens and credits are initialized based on the consumption rate of a single simulation. 

Download the attachment for more information on how to calculate the tokens/credits of each design point for design exploration studies run locally or on cloud.

CST Materials is a collection of add-on materials from various vendors or material characterizations for specific applications (for example: Optical, Particle, and so on). It is an extension to the standard preinstalled Material Library. Download and install the library extension separately from the CST Studio Suite.

This article includes a list of added materials.

A plugin has been developed for Abaqus/CAE that facilitates the setup, analysis, and post-processing of finite element representative volume element (FE-RVE) models.  Such models permit detailed study of the behavior of small-scale material microstructures under the influence of far-field loading.

The plugin includes documentation which can be downloaded directly from this article along with the plugin itself. The plugin should be extracted into an abaqus_plugins directory (for instance, \$HOME/abaqus_plugins).  It can then be accessed from the Plug-ins menu in Abaqus/CAE.