Installation subdirectories

There are two separate software installations required for the Abaqus products.

This guide refers to the two base installation directories as:

solvers_install_dir

This directory contains the Abaqus services: Abaqus/Standard solver, Abaqus/Explicit solver, SIMULIA Co-Simulation Engine, and output database API.

cae_install_dir

This directory contains Abaqus/CAE.

The following subdirectories will be created in either the solvers_install_dir or cae_install_dir:

cae_install_dir/os/CAEresources/ Configuration files.
cae_install_dir/os/code/solvers_install_dir/os/code/ Abaqus executables and command procedures, third-party executables, and libraries.
solvers_install_dir/os/code/include/ Links to header files used for building postprocessing programs with the abaqus make utility.
cae_install_dir/os/code/bin/ The Abaqus/CAE executable.
solvers_install_dir/os/code/bin/ The Abaqus solvers' executables and command procedures.
cae_install_dir/os/SMA/samples/ Input files and directories associated with the installed products, including installation verification problems, timing test problems, files for the Introduction to Abaqus seminar, files for the Getting Started tutorial guides, files for application briefs, files used with the abaqus findkeyword utility, and files from the Example Problems, Benchmarks, and Verification Guides.
solvers_install_dir/os/SMA/site/ Site-specific files: the Abaqus environment files (abaqus_v6.env and custom_v6.env), a sample environment file (abaqusinc.env), include files (file_name.inc), a data file containing information used in the verification procedure (chksum.dat), and the platform computer tables.
cae_install_dir/os/tools/ Python interpreter.
cae_install_dir/os/code/python2.7/lib/ abaqus_plugins/ Example Python modules for Abaqus/CAE plug-ins.