This chapter describes the following general enhancements that have been made to Abaqus:

• “Silent uninstaller batch files for Windows platforms,” Section 2.1

• “Upgrade of Microsoft Visual C++ runtime libraries,” Section 2.2

• “Installation of MPI libraries for parallel execution on Windows,” Section 2.3

• “Installation of PDF documentation,” Section 2.4

• “Performance improvements in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 2.5

• “Usability enhancements in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 2.6

• “Using wildcard characters for file selection,” Section 2.7

• “Enhancements to overlay plots,” Section 2.8

• “Linking field output across viewports,” Section 2.9

• “Accessing plot display customization options from the Visualization module toolbox,” Section 2.10