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IT Services - Abaqus

ABAQUS On-line help

If users have ABAQUS installed on Microsoft Windows on their networked PCs the on-line verson of the manuals can be accessed by making the following changes :

  • For version 6.xx ( replace xx with the version number of Abaqus installed )
    • In the ABAQUS installation directory find the file :
      • C:\SIMULIA\ABAQUS\6.xx-1\site\abaqus_v6.env
      • add the following line to the end of that file :
      • doc_root="http://www-abaqus.eng.cam.ac.uk/v6.xx"
    • In the file : C:\SIMULIA\ABAQUS\6.xx-1\Help\redirects\url.js
      • set :
      • var baseURL="http://www-abaqus.eng.cam.ac.uk/v6.xx/books/";