If the analysis of your model fails or produces unexpected results, you can examine its iteration-by-iteration progress by looking at selected diagnostic information that is written to the following files:
For ABAQUS/Standard analyses:
Diagnostic information is written to the message (.msg) file, and a subset of the information is written to the output database (.odb) file. You can view the diagnostic information in the output database in the Visualization module (for more information, see Chapter 23, “Viewing diagnostic output”). By default, the information is written during every iteration; you can request that ABAQUS discontinue writing diagnostic information to the message file by specifying an output frequency of zero.
For ABAQUS/Explicit analyses:
Diagnostic information is written to the status (.sta) file. For information on the frequency at which this information is written, see “Output,” Section 4.1.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual.
You display the Edit Diagnostic Print dialog box by selecting Output
Diagnostic Print from the main menu bar.
For detailed instructions on requesting diagnostic printing, see “Configuring diagnostic printing,” Section 14.13.3.
Note: Changes to the diagnostic print requests do not affect the diagnostic information written to the output database during ABAQUS/Standard analyses.
