JaimeCernuda/abaqus-scripting

abaqus-amplitude

Define time-varying amplitudes. Use when user mentions ramp, time-varying, cyclic, pulse, or gradually increasing loads. Does NOT handle static constant loads.

abaqus-contact-analysis

Analyze multi-body contact. Use when user mentions parts touching, friction between surfaces, bolt-plate contact, press fit, or assembly with contact.

abaqus-coupled-analysis

Complete workflow for coupled thermomechanical analysis. Use when user mentions thermal stress, thermal expansion, or temperature causing deformation.

abaqus-docs

Download and manage abqpy API documentation. Use when user asks about API documentation, API reference, or downloading Abaqus docs.

abaqus-dynamic-analysis

Complete workflow for dynamic analysis. Use when user mentions impact, crash, drop test, transient, or time-varying response. Handles explicit and implicit dynamics.

abaqus-fatigue-analysis

Workflow for fatigue and durability analysis - cycle counting, damage accumulation, and fatigue life prediction.

abaqus-field

Define initial conditions and predefined fields. Use when user mentions initial temperature, pre-stress, residual stress, or import from previous analysis.

abaqus-interaction

Define contact and interactions - contact pairs, tie constraints, connectors. Use when user mentions contact, friction, tie, parts touching, or bonded surfaces.

abaqus-modal-analysis

Complete workflow for modal/frequency analysis - extract natural frequencies and mode shapes. Use for vibration analysis and resonance avoidance.

abaqus-shape-optimization

Optimize fillet/notch geometry. Use when user mentions stress concentration, fillet optimization, reshaping surfaces, or reducing peak stress. Moves surfaces only.

abaqus-thermal-analysis

Complete workflow for heat transfer analysis - steady-state and transient thermal. Use when user asks about temperature distribution, conduction, convection, or heat flow.

abaqus-odb

Read analysis results. Use when user asks about maximum stress, extracting displacements, reaction forces, or exporting results. Post-processes ODB files.

abaqus-optimization

Execute topology optimization via Tosca CLI. Use when user mentions running optimization, tosca optimize, check run, SLURM job, post-processing optimization results, smoothing, STL export, or validation run.

abaqus

Master skill for Abaqus FEA scripting. Use for any finite element analysis, topology optimization, or Abaqus Python scripting task. Routes to appropriate specialized skills.

abaqus-topology-optimization

Complete workflow for topology optimization. Two paths available — (a) CAE API path using TopologyTask + ObjectiveFunction + OptimizationProcess for Abaqus built-in optimization, or (b) Tosca CLI hybrid path where CAE builds the FE model, writeInput()…

tosca

Tosca .par file authoring for topology, shape, bead, and sizing optimization. Covers block syntax, design responses, constraints, objectives, optimization parameters, and STL export. This is the definitive reference for hand-written .par files.

abaqus-bc

Define boundary conditions - fixed supports, displacements, symmetry. Use when user mentions fixed, pinned, clamped, supported, or constrained. Does NOT handle loads or forces.

abaqus-export

Export Abaqus geometry and results. Use when user mentions exporting to STL, STEP, CSV, or generating input files for external use.

abaqus-geometry

Create and manipulate Abaqus geometry - parts, sketches, extrusions, CAD import. Use for any geometry creation task including box, cylinder, or STEP/IGES import.

abaqus-job

Create and manage Abaqus jobs. Use when user asks to run the analysis, submit the job, execute the model, or generate input file.

abaqus-load

Apply forces and pressures to structures. Use when user asks to apply a force, add pressure, put a load on, or mentions gravity, point loads, or distributed forces.

abaqus-material

Define material properties for FEA models. Use when user mentions steel, aluminum, Young's modulus, elastic, plastic, density, or asks about material properties.

abaqus-mesh

Generate finite element meshes. Use when user mentions mesh, elements, nodes, refine mesh, mesh size, or asks about element types like C3D8R, C3D10, S4R.

abaqus-output

Configure output requests - field outputs, history outputs. Use when user asks what results to save, output variables, reduce output file size, or history output.

abaqus-static-analysis

Complete workflow for static structural analysis. Use when analyzing stress, displacement, or reaction forces under constant loads. For strength and stiffness evaluation.

abaqus-step

Define analysis steps and procedures. Use when user mentions static analysis, dynamic step, frequency analysis, heat transfer step, or asks about analysis type, time increments, or nlgeom.