SIMULIA Abaqus 2025 Installation Guide

Download Abaqus

• Navigate to https://software.3ds.com/ and log into your 3DS account. Then select SIMULIA > SIMULIA Abaqus, Isight, fe-safe, Tosca which will take you to the screen below. Select Abaqus 2025 and Abaqus 2025 Golden as shown below.

• Download all five .tar files to somewhere on your C:\ drive, ideally, a folder you have admin rights to. If multiple versions of Abaqus are present on the same computer, it can be helpful to have separate install folders. The download can take quite a while as the size of all the files is 16.9 GB.

Unzip files

• Once downloaded, first check that the size of the files combined is 16.9 GB. If not, try downloading the files again. If the issue persists you can submit a support ticket through our Support Portal https://www.technia.com/support/. 
• Select all the .tar files and use 7-Zip to “Extract Here”. This is important to create the correct file structure

• This will create a folder in the same directory called AM_SIM_Abaqus_Extend.AllOS.
  

Run installation procedure 

• Inside AM_SIM_Abaqus_Extend.AllOS there should be five folders as shown below. The contents of the folder named “1”, should look like the following, if not, it is likely that the files have not been unzipped correctly. Right-click on the setup.exe and select “Run as administrator”.

Abaqus installation

• Click the “Next” button to proceed with the installation process.

• Select what you want to install. In this installation, the FLEXnet License Server is installed on another machine, so we simply need the products as shown. If you need to set up your FLEXnet License Server, you will need to install it. TECHNIA can help with this should you need it. Click “Next” and then “Install” on the next page.

• Define an installation directory, or keep it default as shown, and then click “Next”.

• Specify which services you want to install and then click “Next”. You can come back and install others in the future.

• Select your preferred license manager. This installation will use SIMULIA FLEXnet. You, or your license manger, should check your license email to find out whether FLEXnet or DSLS should be selected. If it is not your first installation of Abaqus, you can check the environment file of the previous version to obtain this information.

• Specify a local or external license server. You can use “localhost” if Abaqus and FLEXnet are installed on the same machine. If you are using an external server, specify the port followed by the Host ID or IP address e.g. 27000@Your-PC-Host-ID or 27000@123.45.67.89 .

• Define a commands directory, or keep it default as shown, and then click “Next”.

• Define a plugin directory, or keep it default as shown, and then click “Next”.

• Define a working directory, or keep it as the default ‘C:\temp’

• Click “Install”. When it has finished installing, click “Close”.

Established products API installation

• Define an installation directory, or keep it default as shown, and then click “Next”.

• Specify which services you want to install and then click “Next”.

• Click “Install”. When it has finished installing, click “Close”

Isight installation (optional)

• Define an installation directory, or keep it default as shown, and then click “Next”.

• Specify which services you want to install and click “Next”. The SIMULIA Execution Engine allows the execution of jobs and process flows using multiple computers, for more information go to: https://www.3ds.com/products-services/simulia/products/isight-simulia-execution-engine/

• Download the correct JRE ZIP file for your operating system and save it to your computer. You can find the supported versions in Isight Program Directory and the download link in IBM Semeru Runtime Downloads

• If you are not using SEE, select “Skip this for now”.

• Click “Install”.

• When it has finished installing, click “Close”.