Oh, my! This is going to be quite some work. As a first step, I simply used CAE's job manager to run the input decks, but even that will take days of pure runtime. Apart from that, it'll take me some time to understand that strategy of running a heat transfer analysis for an extremely long time...
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Thank you for your advice! I have been able to download the plugin from https://www.3ds.com/products-services/simulia/trends/digital-additive-manufacturing. I Unzipped its contents to ...\CAE\Plugins\2019, and an entry "AM Modeler (show/hide)" appeared in Abaqus CAE's "Plug-Ins" menu...
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Glad to find somebody with experience in AM process simulation! Could you please tell me where to obtain the AM plug-in? We run Abaqus 2019, so it should be compatible to our system. Where in the Abaqus documentation is the „Coupled thermo-mechanical simulation of a laser powder bed...
