Product: Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: Abaqus/CAE now allows you to open multiple output database (.odb) files and produce an automatic overlay plot in a single step. Overlay plots are useful, for example, for displaying data from both output databases in a co-simulation in the same viewport. This enhancement and others improve the usability of overlay plots for applications such as fluid-structure interaction (FSI) co-simulations using Abaqus/CFD.
Description: There are several new enhancements to overlay plot functionality:
You can open more than one output database at the same time and generate an automatic overlay plot of the combined contents in a single viewport.
You can click the new Switch Between Overlay and Single Plot State 
tool in the Visualization toolbox to switch between the single plot and overlay plot state at any time.
You can now adjust the animation controls or field output variable options applied to each layer in an overlay plot.
You can synchronize the visible layer controls by clicking any of the new Sync
icons under Layer Options in the Overlay Plot Layer Manager.
To open more than one output database and generate an overlay plot, use the Append to layers option in the Open Database dialog box. This feature is shown in Figure 2–2. An overlay plot is automatically created in the viewport, and each output database is assigned to a separate layer.
All modules:
File
Open; File Filter: Output Database (*.odb*), Append to layersVisualization module:
ViewOverlay Plot; Animation layer, Field output layer, Synch View Manipulations,
Synch Plot State, Synch Plot Options, Synch Field Output