Recently a post was made in the chinese forum http://maolab.cn/ about Abaqus2Matlab, the new way of coupling simulation and programming between Abaqus and Matlab.
http://maolab.cn/2018/01/04/%E6%8E%A8%E8%8D%90%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%AAmatlab%E6%8F%92%E4%BB%B6%EF%BC%88abaqus2matlab%EF%BC%89%E7%94%A8%E4%BA%8E%E5%92%8Cabaqus%E8%BF%9B%E8%A1%8C%E6%95%B0%E6%8D%AE%E4%BA%A4%E6%8D%A2%E7%9A%84/
The Abaqus2Matlab work team is thankful to Guoyong Mao, a Ph.D. student at Zhejiang University, for his effort not only to make the application available to the Chinese community but also to translate part of the post in Chinese.