2.1.3 Obtaining the Abaqus output directory name

Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit

References

“User subroutines: overview,” Section 18.1.1 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Guide
“UWAVE and UEXTERNALDB,” Section 4.1.27 of the Abaqus Verification Guide

Overview

Utility routines GETOUTDIR and VGETOUTDIR can be called from any Abaqus/Standard or Abaqus/Explicit user subroutine, respectively, to obtain the output directory of the current job.

Interface

character*256 OUTDIR
...
CALL GETOUTDIR( OUTDIR, LENOUTDIR )
CALL VGETOUTDIR( OUTDIR, LENOUTDIR )
...

Variables returned from the utility routine

OUTDIR

Character string to receive the value of the output directory name.

LENOUTDIR

Length of the character string OUTDIR.