Check Abaqus version number

Question

I want to be able to run a simple command to retrieve the active version of Abaqus.

I had hoped that abaqus -v or abaqus -version would work. However, these commands are not valid.

Running abaqus whereami seems to do the trick:

Abaqus 6.9-EF1 Abaqus
Site ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Abaqus is located in the directory C:\SIMULIA\Abaqus\6.9-EF1
...

However, this command is very slow. Querying the Site ID takes way too long.

Is there a quick way to get the version number?

Answer 1

Inside of CAE the python variable 'version' stores the current version number ie:

version '6.12-1'

Answer 2

Enter the following command in windows console(cmd):

abaqus information=versions

Answer 3

In command prompt you can get abaqus to return the version by typing:

abaqus information=release

This returns abaqus version number and the location. Though does include the site ID so is not that fast.

Answer 4

Run the following command in the command prompt at the bottom of Abaqus GUI

>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.version)

Answer 5

If you need to explicitly get version in a Python script:

import abaqus
version = abaqus.version