Description: The writeToJournal argument is now available for many methods in the Abaqus GUI Toolkit. You can set this argument to True to write commands to the message file for the selected method.

In addition, you can run the journalMethodCall function to record a command in the journal file. This option is preferable to the use of the writeToJournal argument if you write your own kernel scripting module and functions. Your command should not call journalMethodCall if the command changes the Mdb object using built-in Abaqus Scripting Interface commands, because these are journaled by default. Your command should call journalMethodCall if the command changes the customData object in the model database. For more information, see “Executing commands,” Section 6.3 in the Abaqus GUI Toolkit User's Manual.