mwestphal
April 22, 2021, 3:56pm
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From a user voice request SIMULIA , a proprietary simulation code from Dassault Systems.
It would be nice to support this file format.
Discussion here:
Certainly, Abaqus could license documentation of their file format to prohibit details from being disclosed to people who have not agreed to the license (which would prohibit open source readers).
A license would not be required if someone was to reverse engineer the file format. However, in order to do the reverse engineering one would need sample odb files. It is possible the Abaqus license prohibits sharing odb files with non-license-holders in an attempt to prohibit reverse engineering. I …
mwestphal
April 22, 2021, 3:57pm
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See the linked discussion about the technicalities of this. Legality may be the main issue.