Parametric studies

The abaqus script facility indicates that a parametric study is to be done (see Scripting parametric studies). Each analysis involved in the design can be executed using the execute command (see aStudy.execute()). You can add any necessary Abaqus execution options (refer to Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit execution) to the execution command for each of the analyses by specifying them on the execOptions option of the execute command. If the script file contains references to other input files, these files must be located in the same directory as the script file. The files created by the execution of the script file are placed in the directory from which the Abaqus execution procedure is run.

The following topics are discussed:

Related Topics
About Execution Procedures
Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit execution

ProductsAbaqus/StandardAbaqus/Explicit

Command summary

abaqus script =script-file startupstartup file-name noenvstartup

Command line options

script-file

When a script file name is specified, the parametric study module is imported and the instructions in the parametric study script file are executed. If the script file name is omitted from the command line, the Python interpreter is initialized by importing the parametric study module.

startup

This option specifies the name of the file containing Python configuration commands to be run at application startup. Commands in this file are run after any configuration commands that have been set in the environment file.

noenvstartup

This option specifies that all configuration commands in the environment files should not be run at application startup. This option can be used in conjunction with the startup command to suppress all configuration commands except those in the startup file.

Examples

Use the following command to execute the Python script in a file named “parstudy.psf”: 

abaqus script=parstudy

The following command will initiate a Python scripting session: 

abaqus script

In a Python scripting session the following command will execute the Python script in a file named “scriptfile”: 

script("scriptfile")