Installation Roadmap

The SIMULIA® established products Assembly Media contains media for Abaqus, fe-safe, Isight, the SIMULIA Execution Engine, Tosca, documentation, and your choice of license server.

The General Availability (GA) release provides an Assembly Media (AM) that contains Windows and Linux media for the various products. There is a Suite Installer on the AM that is capable of launching most of the media. The Suite Installer is provided only for GA releases; individual media upgrades are provided for maintenance releases.

A complete installation includes the individual software products with a license server, and possibly documentation.

Before starting the installers, confirm that your computer is compatible with this release. Compare your system's configuration to the system requirements described in the Program Directory. The Program Directory is additional documentation, similar to release notes, available at http://media.3ds.com/support/progdir. Choose SIMULIA as the product line and Established Products 2023 as the Level, then choose Prerequisites - Abaqus in the left-hand pane. A support contract and private login account are required for access (see https://iam.3ds.com/self_service/login/service/websupport/).

The license server should be installed before products because the product installers use the licensing information to configure network access to the license server.

During GA installations, some configuration information may be requested. The products will use this information as configuration for the life of the installation. Default values are supplied whenever possible, and it is highly recommended that you use the defaults unless you have a good reason to change them. When you later upgrade the products in a maintenance release, you will not be able to change any of the configuration supplied during GA installation, and you will not be able to choose any additional products during the upgrade.

To start the installers on Windows, you must belong to the Administrators group or have the privileges assigned to the Administrators group.

The Assembly Media contains the following:

  • FLEXnet license server

    You can use either FLEXnet licensing or Dassault Systèmes licensing, depending on which type of license file you have. With FLEXnet licensing, you use the vendor daemon named ABAQUSLM for all of the established products.

  • Dassault Systèmes license server

  • SIMULIA Established Products

    This media contains Abaqus/Standard solver and Abaqus/Explicit solver, Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus Samples, Tosca Structure, Tosca Fluid, and fe-safe. This software includes the SIMULIA Co-Simulation Engine and the foundation of all Abaqus APIs.

  • SIMULIA Established Products CAA API

    This media contains the software required for building user subroutines and postprocessing applications. The Component Application Architecture (CAA) API provides source libraries and header files to develop Abaqus user subroutines in Fortran or C++, SIMULIA Co-Simulation Engine connectors, and applications to process the ODB, SIM, or results file.

  • Isight and the SIMULIA Execution Engine

  • HTML documentation for all products

    You can use the web-hosted documentation at http://help.3ds.com/, or you can install the documentation locally on a server at your site. If you choose to install the documentation locally, use the following media:

    • Exalead CloudView search engine
    • NETVIBES SearchDoc - documentation search customization, including a built-in Apache TomEE web server
    • SIMULIA Established Products Documentation
  • CAD associative interfaces for Abaqus