This chapter discusses commands and utilities for running any of the Abaqus products. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Enhanced translation of data from NASTRAN bulk data files to Abaqus,” Section 3.1

• “Translation of Abaqus substructure data from Abaqus SIM files to NASTRAN bulk data file format,” Section 3.2

• “Setting default memory allocation values in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 3.3

• “New double precision option for Abaqus/Explicit,” Section 3.4

• “Matrix input with distributed memory parallel execution,” Section 3.5