3.2.4 Execution procedure for ABAQUS/Viewer

Product: ABAQUS/Viewer  

Reference

Overview

ABAQUS/Viewer, a subset of ABAQUS/CAE that contains only the postprocessing capabilities of the Visualization module, is executed by running the ABAQUS execution procedure and specifying the viewer parameter.

Command summary

abaqus viewer
[database=database-file]
 
[replay=replay-file]
[script=script-file]
[noGUI=noGUI-file]
[noenvstartup]
[noStartupDialog]
[custom=script-file]

Command line options

database

This option specifies the name of the output database file to use if it is different from job-name. The procedure searches for database-file as entered on the command line with the .odb file extension.

replay

This option specifies the name of the file from which ABAQUS/Viewer commands are read. The commands in replay-file will execute immediately upon startup of ABAQUS/Viewer. If no file extension is given, the default extension is .rpy.

script

This option specifies the name of the file containing Python configuration commands to be run at application startup. Commands in this file are run after any configuration commands that have been set in the environment file.

noGUI

This option specifies the name of a file containing Python scripts to be run without the graphical user interface (GUI). This option is useful for automating post-analysis processing tasks without the added expense of running a display. Since no interface is provided, the scripts cannot include any user interaction. ABAQUS/Viewer runs the commands in the file and exits upon their completion. If no file extension is given, the default extension is .py.

noenvstartup

This option specifies that all configuration commands in the environment files should not be run at application startup. This option can be used in conjunction with the script command to suppress all configuration commands except those in the script file.

noStartupDialog

This option specifies that the Start Session dialog box for ABAQUS/Viewer should not be displayed.

custom

This option specifies the name of the file containing ABAQUS GUI Toolkit commands. This option executes an application that is a customized version of ABAQUS/Viewer. For more information, see Chapter 1, Introduction,” of the ABAQUS GUI Toolkit User's Manual.