You are encouraged to copy the tutorial output database to a local directory and experiment with the Abaqus Scripting Interface. The output database and the example scripts from this guide can be copied to the user's working directory using the abaqus fetch utility: abaqus fetch job=name where name.py is the name of the script or name.odb is the name of the output database (see Fetching Sample Input Files). For example, use the following command to retrieve the tutorial output database: abaqus fetch job=viewer_tutorial |