24.1.2022 - Free Fortran Compiler for Abaqus

This document serves as a guide to installing the free Fortran compiler for Abaqus CAE.

Step 1 – Visual Studio

If not yet installed, Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2019 is required. Newer versions do not seem to work, currently. I used VS2017 15.9.42.

Link to Visual Studio 2017: https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=visual%20studio%202017&wt.mc_id=o~msft~vscom~older-downloads

During the setup install the “Desktop development with C++” workload (Figure 2), if VS is already installed but the corresponding workload is not, then this can be done under Tools -> Get Tools and Features…, see figure 1.

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Step 2 – Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit:

The Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit must be installed, please make sure you are not logged in to the website. When the login window opens select “Continue as a Guest”.
Download: https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/oneapi/base-toolkit/download.html

Then simply follow the recommended installation.

Step 3 – Intel oneAPI HPC Toolkit:

The Intel oneAPI HPC Toolkit must be installed, please make sure you are not logged in to the website. When the login window opens select “Continue as a Guest”.
Download: https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/oneapi/hpc-toolkit/download.html

Then simply follow the recommended installation.

Step 4 – Coupling:

After Intel Base and HPC are installed, the compiler and Abaqus still need to be coupled.

Search the Intel vars.bat file, by default à „C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\compiler\latest\env“
Set environment variables in cmd.exe à „ “C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\compiler\latest\env\vars.bat” intel64 vs2017“ Attention!!! Include the quotes “” around the path, otherwise it will not be recognized as a continuous string. If Visual Studio 2019 is installed, then change the last parameter to vs2019.

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Edit “Target” under Abaqus properties à „”C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\compiler\latest\env\vars.bat” intel64 vs2017 && C:\SIMULIA\CAE\2019\win_b64\resources\install\cae\launcher.bat cae || pause“. The first part corresponds to the command described above, the second remains default.

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Open the abaqus.bat file, which I found under “C:\SIMULIA\Commands\abq2019hf14.bat” and add the red marked line accordingly. You could also run the corresponding command manually each time before starting, but this way it is easier and less error-prone.

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Step 5 – Validation:

The installation can be tested with an .input and .fortran file. The following two figures show the validation process for 1. a machine on which the compiler is not installed and 2. on a machine with installation.