All files associated with an Abaqus product installation are stored in the Abaqus parent directory. It is recommended that the Abaqus parent directory be located within the SIMULIA parent directory, and the suggested path is SIMULIA/Abaqus (see Figure B–1). Throughout this guide, the Abaqus parent directory is referred to as abaqus_dir. The following directories will be created under abaqus_dir, depending on which of the installation options are chosen:
| Commands | Directory containing links (Linux) to, or batch files (Windows) for, the driver commands for each release. | |
| release | Release-specific parent directory for each installed release. For example, the default directory name for Abaqus 6.14-1 is 6.14-1. | |
| /api/cse | SIMULIA Co-Simulation Engine Application Programming Interface as well as documentation and examples. | |
| /CAEresources | Configuration files. | |
| /code | Abaqus executables and command procedures, third-party executables, and libraries. Also contains header files used for building postprocessing programs with the abaqus make utility. | |
| /code/bin | The Abaqus executables and command procedures. | |
| /Help | Files used for context-sensitive help in Abaqus/CAE. | |
| /installation_info | Product installation and verification log files as well as the Windows uninstaller log file (if used). | |
| /samples | Input files and directories associated with the installed products, including installation verification problems, timing test problems, files for the Introduction to Abaqus seminar, files for the Getting Started tutorial guides, files for application briefs, files used with the abaqus findkeyword utility, and files from the Example Problems, Benchmarks, and Verification Guides. | |
| /SMA | Miscellaneous information and site-specific files. | |
| /SMA/site | Site-specific files: the Abaqus environment file (abaqus_v6.env), a sample environment file (abaqusinc.env), include files (file_name.inc), a data file containing information used in the verification procedure (chksum.dat), and the platform computer tables. | |
| /tools | Python interpreter. | |
| /code/python/lib/ abaqus_plugins | Example Python modules for Abaqus/CAE plug-ins. | |
An illustration of the Abaqus parent directory structure is shown in Figure B–2.
