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 manual, 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 (UNIX) 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 6.11-1 is 6.11-1. | |
| Configuration | Directory containing configuration files. | |
| exec | Directory containing executables and command procedures. | |
| External | Directory containing third-party executables and libraries. | |
| Python | Directory containing the Python interpreter and modules. | |
| include | Directory containing header files used for building postprocessing programs with the abaqus make utility. | |
| info | Directory containing information files pertaining to the Abaqus release. | |
| installation_info | Directory containing product installation and verification log files as well as the Windows uninstaller log file (if used). | |
| samples | Directory containing 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 manuals, files for application briefs, files used with the abaqus findkeyword utility, and files from the Example Problems, Benchmarks, and Verification Manuals. | |
| site | Directory containing 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. | |
| abaqus_plugins | Directory containing example Python modules for Abaqus/CAE plug-ins. This directory will not be installed on platforms that do not support Abaqus/CAE. | |
| Help | Directory containing files used for context-sensitive help in Abaqus/CAE. This directory will not be installed on platforms that do not support Abaqus/CAE. | |
An illustration of the Abaqus parent directory structure is shown in Figure B–2.
