This chapter discusses features related to creating your model, such as part and assembly definition in Abaqus/CAE; importing and exporting models to or from Abaqus/CAE, and optimization. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Copying sets and surfaces,” Section 3.1

• “Model instancing enhancements in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 3.2

• “Bead optimization,” Section 3.3

• “Accounting for durability during a shape optimization,” Section 3.4

• “Selecting individual part instances when extracting the surface mesh from an optimization,” Section 3.5