When you create or edit an Abaqus for CATIA V5 feature, many of the settings you choose will persist as the default values for future usage of the feature. For example, if you create a Pressure Load with a magnitude of 10 MPa, Abaqus for CATIA V5 will use 10MPa as the default value for the Magnitude field the next time you open the Pressure dialog box. In general, the default values that persist are in editable fields, check boxes, radio buttons, and combo boxes. Abaqus for CATIA V5 does not customize names or support options to any user-defined default values.
Abaqus for CATIA V5 records the persistent default values in the file ABQDialogSettings.CATPreferences, which is stored in the CATSettings directory. You can delete this file if you want to return to the original default behavior for dialog box default values.
The following sections describe the settings that persist for the dialog boxes shown.
Boundary conditions
| Displacement BC, Velocity BC, and Acceleration BC features: all translational and rotational settings. |
| Submodel BC feature: all Exterior Tolerance and Global Step settings. |
Loads
| Pressure Load: Magnitude setting. |
| Point Load, Distributed Load, and Load Density: all Force and Moment component settings. |
| Gravity Load: all component value settings. |
| Rotational Body Force: rotational velocity and rotational acceleration settings. |
| Surface Heat Flux and Body Heat Flux: Magnitude settings. |
| Point Heat Flux: Magnitude setting. |
| Film Condition: reference sink temperature. |
Fields
| Initial Temperature and Temperature History features: Distribution Type and Magnitude settings. |
| Initial Velocity feature: translational velocity component settings. |
| Mass Scaling feature: Scale by factor setting. |
Job options
| Create Job dialog box: all settings on the Submission, General, Memory, Parallelization, and Restart tabbed pages. |
Model properties
| 2D Property Enhancement: Type selection, Offset as a fraction of shell thickness option, Section Integration selection, Temperature Variation selection, Section Poisson's Ratio selection, and Thickness modulus selection. |
| Gasket Property: Stabilization Thickness selection, Initial Thickness selection, Initial Gap value and Initial Void value. |
| Mechanical Connection Behavior: All Tangential Behavior, Normal Behavior, and Hard Contact Pressure-Overclosure options. |
| Cyclic Symmetry Property: number of sectors. |
Assembly properties
| Contact Pairs: the Sliding formulation selection and the Stabilize rigid body modes check box (for Abaqus/Standard analyses only); and all options on the General, Separation, and Advanced tabbed pages (for both Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit analyses). |
| Fastened Pair: Position tolerance options, Adjust slave node initial position check box, and Formulation Options. |
| Spring Connection Property: Type, Definition, Local Orientation, and Stiffness Data. |