The startup script described in the previous section is run by specifying the name of the script as the argument to the –custom option on the command line. To start your application, enter one of the following,

abaqus cae -custom startupScript
abaqus viewer -custom startupScript

where startupScript is the name of the startup script for your application and does not include a file extension. You are responsible for making sure that the script exists in a directory specified in the PYTHONPATH environment variable defined in the abaqus.aev file. The abaqus.aev file is described in “Installation,” Section 11.4.

The first argument to the abaqus command specifies the type of license to be checked out. Specifying abaqus cae will check out a token named cae that will give you access to all the ABAQUS/CAE kernel modules. Specifiying abaqus viewer will check out a token called viewer that will give you access to only the visualization kernel module. Therefore, if your application needs to import any ABAQUS module other than the Visualization module, you must check out a cae token.