Department of Engineering

IT Services

Instructions for On-line Installation of ABAQUS

To do this, on your PC:

  • Goto the Microsoft Start button
  • In the ″Search programs and files″ type Run
  • \\diva-appserv\windows\abaqus
  • and click on OK.

This will display the folders for version 6.11 and 6.12. Choose the appropriate folder and then the appropriate version. The following versions are available for ABAQUS 6.12 :

  1. Win86_32
  2. Win86_64
  3. Lnx86_64

Choose the appropriate folder from the above three. Then click on setup.exe to start the installation. When the options presented are

  • ☑ License
  • ☑ Product

Choose Product For license servers : Choose single server (and enter the port number and the license server). When prompted for the URL for Doc enter:

      http://www-abaqus.eng.cam.ac.uk/v6.11

This will start the installation and at completion will run the verification program. Check the verification. It should have passed the following :

  1. ABAQUS CAE
  2. ABAQUS Standarad
  3. ABAQUS Explicit
  4. ABAQUS Design

It would fail USER SUBROUTINE option as it requires INTEL FORTRAN Compiler.This will only work from within the Engineering Department ie from computers with IP address 129.169.*. This facility has been set up by pjb1008.

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Last updated: 20 Jan 2015