| Section 2.5 | Browsing and searching the contents of data, message, and status files within the job monitor |
| Section 2.6 | Searchable upgrade and conversion log files in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 2.7 | Improved display of translucent objects |
| Section 2.8 | Geometry and mesh performance enhancements |
| Section 2.9 | Improvements to usability and performance for color coding |
| Section 2.10 | Enhanced capability for stopping time-consuming processes |
| Section 2.11 | Exchanging Abaqus/CAE data with Microsoft Excel |
| Section 2.12 | Localized Chinese version of Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 3.3 | Setting default memory allocation values in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 4.1 | Adding descriptions for models and materials in your Abaqus/CAE model |
| Section 4.2 | New attachment point creation method |
| Section 4.3 | Enhancements to fasteners in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 4.4 | Enhancements to suppression of attributes in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 4.5 | Enhancements to material orientations |
| Section 4.6 | Enhancements to defining shell thickness |
| Section 4.7 | Filleting of three-dimensional wire parts |
| Section 4.8 | Improved flexibility for repair of part geometry |
| Section 4.9 | Faster feature regeneration and improved control over kernel memory |
| Section 4.10 | Copying, linking, and excluding part instances |
| Section 4.11 | Reorganization of solid creation options and geometry caching options |
| Section 4.12 | Creating input files without parts and part instances from Abaqus/CAE models |
| Section 5.1 | Importing model and material descriptions from an Abaqus input file |
| Section 5.2 | Improved import of parts |
| Section 6.1 | Abaqus/Standard to Abaqus/Explicit co-simulation |
| Section 6.2 | Modeling discontinuities using the extended finite element method (XFEM) |
| Section 8.1 | New general-purpose tetrahedron with improved surface stress visualization |
| Section 11.1 | General contact in Abaqus/Standard |
| Section 11.5 | Surface-based cohesive contact and damage in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 11.7 | Contact status output |
| Section 11.8 | Improved contact stress output for surfaces based on second-order elements |
| Section 12.1 | Enhanced quality and performance for surface meshing |
| Section 12.2 | Computing deviation of mesh from geometry |
| Section 12.3 | Enhanced automatic virtual topology |
| Section 12.4 | Improved seeding quality |
| Section 13.7 | Enhancements to the Really Simple GUI plug-in |
| Section 14.1 | Display of free body data on planar view cuts |
| Section 14.2 | Improved control over triad size in material orientation plots |
| Section 14.3 | Field output variable selection |
| Section 14.4 | Querying angles and mass properties |
| Section 14.5 | Vector-valued nodal history output in local coordinate systems |
| Section 14.6 | Display of XFEM cracks |
| Section 14.7 | New X–Y data operators |
| Section 14.8 | Filtering improvements and filtered field output |
| Section 15.1 | Enhancements to the Abaqus Python development environment (PDE) |