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*INSTANCE

9.19 *INSTANCE: Begin an instance deﬁnition.

Thisoption i s used to instance a part within an assembly. It m ust be used in conjunction with the *ASSEMBLY

and *END INSTANCE options. If the instance is not imported from a previous analysis, the *INSTANCE

option must be used in conjunction with the *PART option. When importing a part instance from a pr evious

analysis, the *INSTANCE option must be used in conjunction with the *IMPORT option.

Products: ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit

Type: Model data

Level: Assembly

References:

•“Deﬁning an assembly,”Section 2.9.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User ’sManual

•“Transferring results between ABAQUS analyses: overview,” Section 9.2.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis

User’s Manual

•*END INSTANCE

•*IMPORT

Required parameters if the instance is not imported froma previous analysis:

NAME

Set this parameter equal to a label that will beused to refer to the instance.

PART

Set this parameter equal to the name of the part being instanced.

Required parameter if the instance is to be imported froma previous analysis:

INSTANCE

Set this parameter equal to the name of the instanceto be imported from the previous analysis.

Optional import parameter:

LIBRARY

Set this parameter equal to the name of the previous analysis from whic h the instance should

be imported. The previous analysis output database (.odb) ﬁle should reside in the current

(working) directory. If the LIBRARY parameter is omitted, the job nam e of the previous analysis

must be speciﬁed on the command line using the oldjob parameter (see “Execution procedure

for ABAQUS/Standard and ABAQUS/Explicit,” Section 3.2.2 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s

Manual). If both methods are used, the command line speciﬁcation will take precedence over the

LIBRARY parameter.

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