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ABAQUS Ascfil

The result file with extension .fil is one of the files generated by the ABAQUS Analysis procedure. This file is generated when the analysis or continue option is used in ABAQUS/Standard, or convert=select is used in ABAQUS/Explicit. The original .fil file has a binary format.

Sometimes it is necessary to translate the .fil file to an ASCII format for porting between dissimilar operating systems. ABAQUS Ascfil converts the result files to a suitable binary format so that the files may reside on different computers for postprocessing.

The syntax for ABAQUS/Ascfil is :

       abaqus ascfil job=job_name
                     [input=input_file]
                     [interactive | background | queue=[queue_name] [after=time]]

ABAQUS Ascfil creates a new result file with an extension .fin from the .fil file. It is a readable ASCII file.

For more details on this ABAQUS facility please refer to the "Execution procedure for ASCII translation of results (.fil) files" in the ABAQUS/Post manual.

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