This guide contains information about installing and customizing Abaqus 2016.

The installation of Abaqus involves the following tasks:

• Installing the Abaqus documentation.

• Installing an Abaqus license server.

• Installing Abaqus products.

Network licensing and procedures to administer the license server are described in Chapter 3, “Abaqus licensing.”

The environment file provides options for customizing an Abaqus installation. Specifying the file system to be used to store scratch files is particularly important. For details on how to set local defaults and adjust the system configuration to run Abaqus jobs efficiently, see Chapter 4, “Customizing the Abaqus environment.”

For more information on customizing the Abaqus user interface, printer configuration, and graphic card tuning, see Chapter 5, “Customizing Abaqus/CAE and Abaqus/Viewer.”