Any softwares to open large Abaqus Inp file 2

[Wayneeeee]

Hi There,

I'm having trouble opening an input file generated from Abaqus using both notepad and notepad++. The input file has a size of 2.5 GB and thus is too big for notepad or notepad++ to handle. Are there any other software that might be able to handle that? Or are there any other ways around this?

Thanks!

 

[FEA way]

Try using gVim. I think that it’s the best choice for large input files.

 

[Mustaine3]

UltraEdit could also do it, but it's not for free. Maybe Emacs could do it too.
I think I've also seen a script somewhere, that splits a large input file into multiple smaller files.

 

[Wayneeeee]

Okay, I'll give it a shot. Thanks both!

 

[IceBreakerSours]

Notepad/Wordpad are among the least useful editors past the most simple and small input decks. I have tried editors as well like Notepad++, Geany, X/Emacs but nothing can beat VI/VIM/GVIM when it comes to performance in loading large files. Its usability sucks so I have a cheat sheet hung up in front of my eyes.

Thanks to some unknown individual, VIM/GVIM has a lot of useful features for Abaqus users. For instance, do :setf abaqus to do keyword highlighting and folding. I even have my VIM config file set up so it automatically recognizes the Abaqus file types when I open up Abaqus input decks. Scrolling quickly and deleting stuff in various ways is a breeze, diff operation is handy, vertical editing is convenient, and background/font coloring options are nice to have. There are many options to scale up your single or multiple input deck editing in either Linux or Windows environments. I do not know if there is a document map feature but I'd surprised if there isn't one. That said, I rarely use it because how I organize my keyword decks - I organize them by keeping the nodes/element keywords in a mesh.inp, global control keywords in a control.inp, and the rest of the keywords in the calling file main.inp. Such a structure helps with navigation in the main and control input decks.

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