Hello:

I am trying to do a very simple thing that I just can't seem to do in Abaqus!

I know how to create a new text file and write to it any output variables with any desired format I want! That's a relatively easy task in Abaqus.

The hard part is for Abaqus to read from that existing file later on. If I try to write a read command code in fortran (in the same subroutine or inside a different subroutine), Abaqus freezes on me, and nothing gets updated at all!!! I have to, at that point, kill the job!

I really want to create a common block array where I will save a particular array variable that is already available from previous increments in a text file. The problem is, inside none of the subroutines in Abaqus, the read command work successfully!!!

Any ideas?

Please and thank you.

Mousumi Ghosh