Products: ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit
The abaqus ascfil translation facility:
is provided to convert results (.fil) files (produced by an ABAQUS analysis) to ASCII format for porting between dissimilar operating systems;
permits the movement of results data to a different system for postprocessing; and
can also be used to convert a results file in ASCII format to binary format to save disk space.
job
This option specifies the input and output file names to use during results file translation. The job-name value is used as the default input file name. The translated output file will have the name job-name.fin if the input option is not used.
If the input file is in binary format (default), this utility will create the job-name.fin file in ASCII format. To transfer the results file back to binary format after porting to a dissimilar operating system, rename the job-name.fin file to job-name.fil, and use this utility again; the resulting job-name.fin file will be in binary format.
If this option is omitted from the command line, you will be prompted for this value.
input
This option specifies the name of the results file if it is different from job-name. The name of the translated results file is input-file.fin when this option is used.