Help:Abaqus/Scripting

Scripting

Abaqus scripting is done through Python. When you create a model, CAE creates three files:

1. A script of evertything you do, saved in the file .log
2. A script of everything that resulted in a permanent change to the model database .mdb, saved in the file .rpy
3. A script similar to 2 but only of what you have done since the last save operation, saved in the file .rec

The utility PDE (python development environment) can read another type of script, a GUI Log, that mimics the mouse clicks you have done in CAE, saved in the file .guiLog, but I don't know how to get CAE to create this file. In fact, this is the reason why I started writing this Wiki, to see if someone will chime in and tell us how to get CAE to write the .guiLog file!