How to run an Abaqus Job with Command Prompt

Problem

This article goes over the steps to run an Abaqus job from the Command Prompt. As long as you already have a job set up and saved, you can run the job from the command prompt without opening Abaqus CAE. The job in this example is named "Job-1" and is located at C:\Abaqus_temp\clipassy\temp.

Solution Steps

1. Open the command prompt and step into the folder where the job is located with the command:
   cd <filepath>

2. Next, type in: abaqus j=<jobname> cpus=<number of cpus>

3. If the job already exists, overwrite with a "y".

In the same folder, there will be a log file named <jobname>.log, which can be opened with Notepad to see how many licenses were checked out and how many remain available.

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