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Tech Talks

👉 For upcoming Tech Talks, see 🎤Tech Talks & E-seminar collection

Community tags are a great way to filter the newsfeed. Just select the Structures tag and the Tech Talk tag to see all the latest Tech Talks.

Blogs

➡️ All SIMULIA Structures blogs on the website

You can see the community Blog Roundups by using the SIMULIA Blog tag:

E-seminars archive

• The Archive | Tech Talks & E-seminars wiki page has links to e-seminars back to 2020.
• For pre-2020 e-seminars, see the Abaqus e-seminar archive page

Abaqus User Assistance

Abaqus User Assistance 2026

Knowledge Base

Search and find up-to-date Technical knowledge here.

Free Abaqus Learning Edition

The Abaqus Learning Edition Software Download is available in this community, free of charge, for personal and educational use on Windows platform only. It supports structural models up to 1000 nodes.

Tech tips

• How To: Use a Keyword Edit to Enable Element Deletion and Internal Contact
• Abaqus Scripts/Plug-ins
• Abaqus ODB API
• Environment variable to suppress job messages
• _findAt() method
• Finding out unconnected regions in an Abaqus model
• Use of getSubset() method with ELEMENT_NODAL output
• AFXPickStep in Abaqus/CAE plug-in
• Abaqus/CAE plug-in with custom data
• odbJoin utility limitation
• BulkData in Python ODB API

E-learning Resources

Getting Started

• Getting Started with Abaqus/CAE Manual​​​​​​​
• Getting Started video tutorials
• Abaqus/CAE User's Primer for 3DEXPERIENCE
• How To | Scripting in Abaqus
• How To | More scripting in Abaqus
• How To | User subroutines in Abaqus

Analysis

• Abaqus-Dymola co-simulation using the Abaqus/CAE plug-in

• Electromagnetic analysis

• Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics – SPH

Material Modeling and Calibration

• Material Modeling and Calibration - An Overview and Curriculum  ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​(including elastomer calibration tips and more!)

• PEEQ Calculation in Abaqus

• Composite Layups

Performance: techniques for reducing analysis time

• Abaqus Simulations Powered by 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud

• Co-simulation of Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit

• Cyclic symmetry in Abaqus/Standard

• Importing analysis results from a previous Abaqus analysis  

• Parallel Execution for Abaqus/Explicit

Modeling

• Analytical Fields in Abaqus/CAE
• Assembled fasteners

• Automatic virtual topology to smoothly mesh over stair-like features

• Creating Geometry from an Orphan Mesh

• OEBT (ODB Extractor and Builder Tool) Plug-in​​​​​​​

• Topology and Shape Optimization in Abaqus (ATOM)

• Brake Cooling Plug-in for brake cooling simulations

Usability

• Custom Toolbars in Abaqus/CAE

Visualization

• Automatic Overlay Plot and Combine ODB Plug-in
• Plotting Contours on Beam Elements
• Free Body Cuts
• Mirror and Pattern Abaqus Results
• Path creation for result visualization
• Streamlines for fluid flow visualization  

Tech Brief Video

• Abdominal Aorta Blood Flow Analysis with Abaqus/CFD

• Coupled Electromagnetic and Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of a Solenoid Valve

• Simulation of ballistic perforation of aluminum plates with Abaqus/Explicit

Whitepapers and E-books

• SIMULIA Resource Center