abaqus on cygwin

[Kleven Bingham]

I happened to take a look at the ABAQUS system requirements page, noted 
here:

http://www.abaqus.com/support/ts_v63/ts_sys_rqmts63.html

It says that it requires OpenGL & GLX and that it is tested against 
Exceed & Exceed 3D version 7.1 but 7.0 and 8.0 are <bold>NOT</bold> 
supported (bolded and capped by ABAQUS).

OpenGL and 3D stuff is way beyond my limited understanding when it comes 
to X servers, but I'd say you'll probably have a very hard time using 
ABAQUS with anything other than Exceed.  There are hints in some of the 
problem reports (which can be searched here: 
http://www.abaqus.com/forms/ts_status-reports.html and use target string 
exceed) that ABAQUS hard-codes the software to look specifically for 
Exceed executables and proper Exceed installation.  I think Exceed may 
be the only option.

Kleven


Kevin Van Workum wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hmm just a quick check, the bash-prompt you fire it up from, is it
>>started from within cygwin X-windows? Is the environment variable
>>$DISPLAY set to something? (you have started X-windows, and tell
>>abacus to where to find it)
> 
> 
> a bash prompt in an xterm says:
> $ echo $TERM $DISPLAY
> xterm 127.0.0.1:0.0
> 
> 
>>I wonder, it seems like you have to blame abaqus, not cygwin, it maybe
>>only checks if exceed is running, if not, it complains, doesn't check
>>for generic X-displayer.
> 
> 
> Maybe there's a way to trick abaqus to use XFree86 instead of Exceed, but
> I don't know.
> 
> 
>>Thought 3 or something.. seems to do some 3d? Maybe something it can't
>>find in the cygwin X-displayer, but in exceed?
> 
> 
> That may be a problem if I can ever get it to use my x-server.
> 
> Kevin.
> 
> 
>>     /Andy
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>| I have ABAQUS 6.3.1 for Windows installed on my Windows 2000 laptop. I
>>| also have the current cygwin and cygwin-xfree installed and working
>>| properly and I'm using the waimea window manager.
>>|
>>| I'm starting ABAQUS from a Windows Command Prompt via "abaqus -cae" or
>>| from the Star Menu or from a cygwin bash shell. I get the follow error
>>| messages:
>>|
>>| "ABAQUS Error: The Exceed executable could not be located. This may
>>| indicate a problem with the Exceed installation or an upgrade to the
>>| Exceed installation."
>>|
>>| "First, please check that you have Exceed installed and working correctly.
>>| Then, please reinstall your ABAQUS Products in order to resolve this
>>| problem. If this issue persists, please contact your local ABAQUS support
>>| office for further assistance."
>>|
>>| I don't have Exceed installed and I was hoping there is a way to use the
>>| cygwin XFree86 server in place of Exceed. I'm assuming I have to edit the
>>| abaqus_v6.env and/or graphicsConfig.env files, but I don't know what
>>| changes to make or if it is even possible to do this. Maybe Exceed is
>>| really required, as the ABAQUS documentation indicates.
>>
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