Submit a job with this option selected to perform a complete analysis of your model and to write the results to the output database. This option is the default.

Submit a job with this option selected to check that the model is consistent and that all the required model options have been set. To see the results of a data check analysis, review the data (.dat) file in your working directory. You can also view the results of a data check analysis by selecting JobMonitorjob of your choice to display the job monitor dialog box. (For more information, see “Monitoring the progress of an analysis job,” Section 18.2.6.)

When you run an analysis with the Data check option above, ABAQUS creates and saves all the files necessary to continue the analysis at a later time. Submit a job with the Continue analysis option selected to complete the analysis.

This option is available only for ABAQUS/Explicit analyses. Submit a job with this option selected to complete your analysis if ABAQUS/Explicit stopped unexpectedly; for example, after running out of disk space or after a network problem. “Recovering an ABAQUS/Standard analysis,” Section 18.4.9 describes how you can use the restart capabilities of ABAQUS/Standard to continue an analysis that terminated prematurely.

Submit a job with this option selected to start the analysis using data from a previous analysis of a specified model. You must use the Edit Model Attributes dialog box to specify the job to read data from and to specify the step from which to restart the analysis. Restart analyses are described in more detail in “Restarting an analysis,” Section 18.4.