Hi everyone,

I want to perform a topology optimization on a Abaqus submodel, but I don't know where to specify the global model result file (odb). I am now running the optimization on a cluster, and I have this command line:

abaqus inter optimization task=Opt-Process-1.par globalmodel=globalmodel.odb job=to_results cpus=4

But it doesn't work. The error given is: 

Abaqus Error: Command line option "globalmodel" may not be used with "optimization".
Valid options for use with "optimization" are:
['interactive', 'background', 'sequential', 'queue', 'at', 'after', 'job', 'task', 'validate', 'cpus', 'noGUI', 'message', 'messaging_mechanism', 'listener_name', 'listener_resource', 'direct_port', 'extract', 'verbose', 'resume']

I am wondering if anybody had experience with this procedure.

I suspect that I have to specify the global model in the .par file but I'm not sure how.

Any kind of help will be very welcome!

Marta