SBC2012 is pleased to offer: Abaqus Scripting Course to all attendees at this year's 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference at a significant discount! Registration is limited to 200 people and will be honored on a first come first serve basis. You can register for the this course at the conference registration website: https://www.boscovstravel.com/groups/asme/Default.aspx

Date and Time

• Friday, June 22 from 2:30pm to 7:00pm

Fee and Registration

• The Fee for this course is $75.00 (regularly over $200 for academic personnel for registration in addition to hotel and travel costs for getting to the Abaqus course site). You can register through the 2012 SBC registration site located at: https://www.boscovstravel.com/groups/asme/Default.aspx

• The deadline for registration is June 1, 2012

Abaqus Scripting

Objective:
The objective of this seminar is to provide an introduction to the Python scripting language and to demonstrate how analysts can integrate it with the Abaqus product line. At the end of the seminar, the student should be comfortable in writing moderately complex scripts and should know where to look for additional information. By reviewing many examples, insight is provided on how scripting can be used to customize Abaqus in order to meet specific needs of typical engineering organizations.

• The goal of this advanced seminar is to introduce you to the Abaqus Scripting Interface. The Abaqus Scripting Interface allows you to customize Abaqus to suit your specific requirements.

• Abaqus Release 6 makes extensive use of Python, a powerful, widely used scripting language. This seminar covers Python's basic syntax and provides numerous worked examples.

• The seminar includes use of Python for accessing Abaqus results on the output database (.odb) file, use of Python for scripting with Abaqus/CAE and Abaqus/Viewer, and general use of Python to accomplish varied programming tasks.

Background
Abaqus Version 6 makes extensive use of Python; a powerful, object-oriented scripting language that is used widely by organizations throughout the world. Python has been embedded within the Abaqus software products. The language has been extended to include a rich set of commands that are well suited for the daily tasks of a finite element analyst. Technically speaking, the extensions are referred to as the Abaqus Scripting Interface (ASI). The ASI may be thought of as an application programming interface (API) to the models and data used by Abaqus.

The Abaqus Scripting Interface may be used by the finite element analyst at many different levels. Scripts can be written as stand-alone utilities, or can be written to integrate the Abaqus products with other codes. At a basic level, scripts may be used to automate repetitive tasks such as the creation of results plots from a collection of output files. With some experience, users may actually extend the functionality of the Abaqus products. Advanced users may work with SIMULIA affiliates to customize the graphical user interface of the Abaqus interactive products (Abaqus/CAE and Abaqus/Viewer).