If you edit a keyword using the Keywords Editor and then use Abaqus/CAE to make a change to your model that refers to the same keyword, Abaqus/CAE cannot determine which version of the keyword to incorporate in the input file and writes text to the input file signaling the problem. As a result, an error is generated when you submit the model for analysis. If you display the input file using the Keywords Editor, any keywords or data lines that conflict are indicated by a *Conflicts statement. In addition, the *Conflicts statement indicates whether the text was generated by Abaqus/CAE or by the Keywords Editor. You should use the Keywords Editor to remove any unwanted keywords or data lines. You should also remove all the *Conflicts statements.

Certain input file conflicts cannot be resolved using the Keywords Editor; for example, conflicts caused by modifications to the input file line immediately following hidden data lines (see “Adding unsupported keywords to your Abaqus/CAE model,” Section 9.10.1). In these situations you can use the Job module to write the complete input file to a text file (see “Writing the input file only,” Section 19.7.2, for details). You can modify this input file using a text editor, then manually submit the modified input file for analysis (see “Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit, and Abaqus/CFD execution,” Section 3.2.2 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Guide). To perform the analysis in Abaqus/CAE, create a new job in the Job module using the modified input file as the job source (see “Creating a new analysis job,” Section 19.7.1).