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

• “Performance improvements for batch preprocessing and initialization,” Section 2.1

• “Queuing sessions running interactively,” Section 2.2

• “Persistence for session objects and options,” Section 2.3

• “Boolean operations on sets and surfaces,” Section 2.4

• “Consistency of objects during instance merging operations,” Section 2.5

• “Controlling part instance display from the Model Tree or from the viewport,” Section 2.6

• “Inverting component display and undoing display group changes from the Display Group toolbar,” Section 2.7

• “Clearer organization for view cut color selection options,” Section 2.8