Abaqus .odb file format

[Christian Bope [e-mail] [Abaqus]]

Dear All,


I'm working on molecular mechanics and FEM, I got abaqus x.odb file and I want to extract eigenvector for every single mode which will help me in next step to compute protein B-factor (Boltzman factor).


I order to do that, I need to know the .odb file format which will be helpfull for me to write my code to extract the mode.


Thank you in adavance for your response.


Christian


NTU, Singapore

[[e-mail] [Abaqus]]

Christian,

The *.odb format is NOT documented and changes from version to version of ABAQUS. If you want programmatic access to the results, you have two options:
a) use the python or c++ APIS provided with ABAQUS to access *.odb files
b) request *.fil output in the *STEP section (see the manual). This format is well documented and allows you to program your own access routines in any language.

Hope this helps,
Fernando