ABAQUS maker

[coldformed]

What to do about ABAQUS maker, the code to go from CUFSM to ABAQUS.

I had a button in CUFSM before, and it works in matlab, but it does not work when I try to compile. That was because it used an internal .mat file to try to initialize. I tried to debug, but ultimately gave up.

The code has a little GUI where you answer some basic questions and it extrudes your CUFSM shape for us in CUFSmm AND if you want you can use CUFSm buckling modes as imperfections - which was the real strength of the code. But the GUI has never been used a lot.

Should we just turn this into batch code and kill of the GUI? Create a standalone example only? Turn it into a Matlab live script so people can see what we are doing?

[coldformed]

One solution is to just make it so you have to load a saved file. It does not accept the current internal data. You have to save a file and then load it into the GUI. The other options are above.