Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit Abaqus/CFD
Benefits: The new SIM database utilities provide tools that allow you to convert SIM database files to make them compatible with other releases.
Description: You can use the abaqus sim_version utilities to convert a SIM database file from one release to another, to query a SIM database file for its SIM release level, or to determine the SIM release level of the current code you are using. For more information on the SIM database file, see “Writing results from an Abaqus analysis to a SIM database,” Section 12.1.
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