Joining results (.fil) files

The abaqus append postprocessing facility:

  • is provided to join results (.fil) files into a single file;

  • permits two results files that may be either ASCII or binary files, or a combination of ASCII and binary, to be joined for further postprocessing; and

  • will write a results file in the same format as the file specified with the oldjob option.

A similar utility, abaqus restartjoin, is used to join output database (.odb) files. See Joining output database (.odb) files from restarted analyses for details.

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Command summary

abaqus appendjobjob-nameoldjoboldjob-nameinputinput-file

Command line options

job

This option specifies the output file name to use during execution. The job-name value is used as the output file name. The joined output file will have the name job-name.fil.

If this option is omitted from the command line, you will be prompted for this value.

oldjob

This option specifies the name of the first results file to use during execution. The oldjob-name value is used as the results file name.

If this option is omitted from the command line, you will be prompted for this value.

input

This option specifies the name of the second results file to use during execution. The input-file results file will be appended to the oldjob-name results file.

If this option is omitted from the command line, you will be prompted for this value.

Examples

The following command will append the history contents of the fjoin003.fil results file to the end of the fjoin002.fil results file and create the file fjoin001.fil: 

abaqus append job=fjoin001 oldjob=fjoin002
input=fjoin003