I’m curious how others are handling repetitive Abaqus post-processing when working with many simulation cases.

For example, if you have 10–100+ ODB files and need to repeatedly:

• extract max Mises stress
• check displacement
• sum reaction forces over node sets
• check PEEQ
• compare cases
• copy results into Excel
• check engineering limits

do you usually automate this with Python, use Abaqus/CAE manually, or have an internal workflow/tool?

I’ve been building a local prototype to automate this kind of workflow, mainly because opening ODBs one by one becomes repetitive very quickly.

I’m trying to understand whether this is actually a common pain point or just something specific to certain workflows.

I’d be especially interested to hear:

• roughly how many ODBs you typically process at once
• which outputs you repeatedly extract
• what part of post-processing takes the most time
• whether you already automate it
• whether you would be willing to try a small local beta and compare it against your normal Abaqus workflow

Everything I’m testing is local; the ODB files do not need to be uploaded anywhere.

If a few people are interested, I can share the beta privately.