29.2 Mdb commands

The following command upgrades a model database (.cae) to the current release and writes the upgraded model database to a new file.

29.2.1 upgradeMdb(...)

This method upgrades an existing Mdb object to the current release and writes the upgraded version of the Mdb object to a file. In addition, Abaqus/CAE writes information about the status of the upgrade to the log file (upgradedMdbPath.log).

Path

upgradeMdb

Required arguments

existingMdbPath

A String specifying the path to the file containing the model database to be upgraded.

upgradedMdbPath

A String specifying the path to the file that will contain the upgraded model database.

Optional arguments

None.

Return value

None

Exceptions

If the model database upgrade fails:

MdbError: cannot convert file