Installation of Solidworks to Abaqus Plugin and importing the model in solidworks for Windows
1. Go to the installation directory of solidworks “C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks”
2. Right click on Solidworks.exe and select Run as Administrator
3. In SolidWorks window File – Open
4. Select from the drop down, the file type “Add-Ins (*dll)
5. Browse to the Sw2AbqPlugin_64_VX.X.dll and open the file
6. If it installed properly you can find an icon in top left corner and the corresponding line item in Addins
7. Open Abaqus CAE
8. Set the Modude to “Assembly”
9. Click on Tools – CAD Interfaces - SolidWorks
10. Click on enable
11. Open the required part or assembly on solidworks and click the abaqus icon on top left corner of soliworks
12. The model will be imported in Abaqus
