System Requirements and Limitations

You should be aware of the following system requirements and limitations when extracting parameters from Abaqus/CAE that were created by a manual associative import from CATIA V5.

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Supported Versions of Software

System requirements

The Abaqus component must fulfill the following system and software requirements:

Operating system
Windows 64-bit operating system.
Abaqus/CAE release
Supported release of Abaqus
Isight release
Isight 5.7 or later.
CATIA V5 release
Supported version of CATIA V5.
Associative interface release
CATIA V5 Associative Interface plug-in for the installed supported release of CATIA V5.

General Limitations

  • CATIA V5 must not be running on your computer when Isight executes the process flow; otherwise, updating the geometry parameters in Abaqus/CAE and CATIA V5 will fail.
  • If you previously ran a CATIA V5 session with undocked toolbars, those same toolbars appear when the Abaqus component launches CATIA V5 in background mode.