If your system loses contact with the license server or your license is otherwise lost during a session, you can save the model database in its current state. Abaqus/CAE displays a message dialog containing the following options:

• Try to reacquire a license or check to see if the server is available

• Save the model database

• Exit Abaqus without saving the model database

By default, Abaqus/CAE will attempt to reacquire a license or reconnect to the license server. To save the model database, select the second option and provide a file name; if you have already saved a model during the current session, Abaqus/CAE shows the last file name and path as the defaults to save the current model database. When you click OK, Abaqus/CAE saves the model. If you choose to exit without saving the model, Abaqus/CAE will attempt to recover the model information the next time that you start a session. Once you have saved the model, the save option is removed from the dialog box—you can either continue trying to obtain a license or exit the session.

You should save the model database periodically. Abaqus/CAE never saves the model database unless you perform an explicit save operation; there is no timer-based automatic saving, for example. If you try to save a model database that has not been modified, no action is taken.

For information on related topics, click any of the following items:

• “What is an Abaqus/CAE model database?,” Section 9.1

• “What is an Abaqus/CAE model?,” Section 9.2

• “Using the File menu,” Section 9.6

• “Using file selection dialog boxes,” Section 3.2.10