Licensing and execution

To start your application, enter one of the following,

abaqus cae -custom startupScript
abaqus viewer -custom startupScript

where startupScript is the name of the startup script for your application and does not include a file extension. You are responsible for locating the script in:

• A directory specified in the PYTHONPATH environment variable, or
• One of the locations for external plugins, as described in Where are plug-in files stored?

The first argument to the abaqus command specifies the type of license to be checked out. Specifying abaqus cae will check out a token named cae that will give you access to all the Abaqus/CAE kernel modules. Specifiying abaqus viewer will check out a token called viewer that will give you access to only the visualization kernel module. Therefore, if your application needs to import any Abaqus module other than the Visualization module, you must check out a cae token.