Getting Started with Abaqus/CAE

This guide is a self-paced tutorial designed to help new users become familiar with using Abaqus/CAE to create solid, shell, and beam and truss models; analyze these models in Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit; and view the results in the Visualization module of Abaqus/CAE.

It contains a number of fully worked examples that provide practical guidelines for performing structural analyses with Abaqus. In addition, comprehensive tutorials are provided to introduce users familiar with the Abaqus solver products to the Abaqus/CAE interface.