Programming with the ABAQUS Scripting Interface is straightforward and logical. To illustrate how easy it is to write your own programs, the following sections describe two simple ABAQUS Scripting Interface scripts.
You are not expected to understand every line of the examples; the terminology and the syntax will become clearer as you read the detailed explanations in the following chapters. “Summary,” Section 3.3, describes some of the principles behind programming with Python and the ABAQUS Scripting Interface.