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Start Abaqus/CAE, and enter the Assembly module.
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From the main menu bar, select .
- From the CATIA V6 dialog box that appears, choose Auto-assign port and click Enable.
Abaqus/CAE displays the port number that it assigned in the message area. (If desired, you can click Specify port and enter the port number.) - From the Assembly Design app or the Part Design app, load the model to be exported.
- From the top bar, select .
The model appears in the current Abaqus/CAE viewport. If an assembly is open in the app, the parts are imported into Abaqus/CAE and an assembly of part instances is created automatically. If a single part is open in the app, only the part is imported into Abaqus/CAE. You can use the parts and the assembly in an Abaqus/CAE analysis; for example, you can apply sections to the parts, and you can apply loads and boundary conditions to the assembly. - If you modify the model in the app, select Export to Abaqus/CAE to update the model in Abaqus/CAE.
The modified model is imported into Abaqus/CAE using the settings previously specified in the Export to Abaqus/CAE dialog box. Abaqus/CAE imports only the modified parts. Any changes that you make to the position of parts in the CATIA assembly will also be exported to Abaqus/CAE. Any components that you deactivate or activate in CATIA are suppressed or resumed similarly in Abaqus/CAE. If you hide a component in CATIA, the visibility of that part instance in Abaqus/CAE is turned off; use the Assembly Display Options in Abaqus/CAE to control the visibility of part instances (for more information, see “Controlling instance visibility,” in the Abaqus/CAE User’s Guide). Features (such as loads and sets) and geometric modifications that you created in Abaqus/CAE are updated to account for the changes to the CATIA parts. Abaqus/CAE will be unable to regenerate some features if the topology of the part has changed significantly. -
From the Abaqus/CAE main menu bar, select to show the
port number that is being used or to disable the connection with CATIA. For more information, see “Creating a CAD connection,” in the Abaqus/CAE User’s Manual.
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