When running a Distributed ANSYS (DANSYS) analysis in batch mode, note that the master process appends the jobname with a “0”.  Hence, the .abt file must be called “jobname0.abt” in order to stop the analysis.

If using a DOS prompt or Linux terminal window, issue the following command in the working directory of the master process:

echo nonlinear > file0.abt

(assuming that the jobname is “file”).

It may take several minutes for the run to actually quit since this method does a ‘clean’ stop of the solution.