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Design Manager
Design Manager provides an automated approach within Simcenter STAR-CCM+ to run design exploration studies. Design exploration covers both performance assessment and optimization.
Design Manager Reference
The following properties and right-click actions are available for a Design Manager project.
Design Plots Reference
The following properties and right-click actions are available for XY plots and Parallel Coordinates plots in Design Manager.
Data Points and Data Lines Reference
The following actions are available when you right-click a specific data point or data line in a project plot that displays in the Graphics window:

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Design Manager
Design Manager provides an automated approach within Simcenter STAR-CCM+ to run design exploration studies. Design exploration covers both performance assessment and optimization.
- Study Inputs
  In Design Manager, study inputs are parameters that you define in the reference simulation and that Design Manager can modify during design studies.
- Study Outputs
  For each design simulation in a design study, Design Manager allows you to record and write specific outputs.
- Surrogate Models
  In Design Manager, a surrogate is a predictive function that returns an estimated response value for a given set of numerical input parameters. Design Manager computes surrogate functions by fitting data from design study simulations to chosen surrogate models such as Kriging or Least Squares.
- Study Types
  Design Manager offers several types of design study by which you can explore the design space of your product.
- Study Runs
  Design Manager allows you to run design studies on your local workstation or on a high performance cluster. You can run the design simulations sequentially or concurrently, in serial or in parallel. In addition, you can customize the simulation run by inserting Java macros that contain additional setup for the simulation. Design Manager optimizes runs by caching meshes and reusing them where possible.
- Study Analysis
  Design Manager provides post-processing capabilities by which you can analyze the outputs of a design study.
- Design Manager Licensing
  The licenses that are required for running a design study in Design Manager depend on the type of study and the specified run settings. Also, different steps within the Design Manager workflow have particular license requirements.
- Design Manager Workflow
  The following steps outline the recommended workflow to set up, run, and post-process a design study in Design Manager.
- Design Manager Reference
  The following properties and right-click actions are available for a Design Manager project.
  - Simulations Reference
    The following properties and right-click actions are available for reference simulations in Design Manager.
  - Design Studies Reference
    The following properties and right-click actions are available for design studies in Design Manager.
  - Surrogate Reference
    The following properties and right-click actions are available for the design study Surrogates node and created surrogate [surrogate] node in Design Manager.
  - Snapshots Reference
    The following properties and right-click actions are available for snapshots in Design Manager.
  - Design Plots Reference
    The following properties and right-click actions are available for XY plots and Parallel Coordinates plots in Design Manager.
    - Data Series Reference
      Design Manager data series specify the data sets that are displayed in a project plot.
    - Data Points and Data Lines Reference
      The following actions are available when you right-click a specific data point or data line in a project plot that displays in the Graphics window:
    - Design Feasibility Pie Charts Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for Design Feasibility Pie Charts in Design Manager.
    - Plot Setup Dialog Reference
  - Layout View Reference
    The following properties and right-click actions are available for Layout View in Design Manager.
  - Tools Reference
    The Tools manager node contains various objects that facilitate your analysis.
  - Toolbars Reference
    The following toolbars are specific to Design Manager projects.
  - Command Line Options Reference
    The following command line options are available for Design Manager.
- Troubleshooting Design Manager
  If you encounter problems when setting up or running a design study, check these common problem scenarios for advice on how to proceed.

Data Points and Data Lines Reference

The following actions are available when you right-click a specific data point or data line in a project plot that displays in the Graphics window:

Show Design Details: Opens the Design Details Dialog.
Open Scenes > [scene] > [snapshot]: Allows you to create a new scene snapshot or open a previously created scene snapshots for the selected design. See Snapshots.
Open Plots > [plot] > [snapshot]: Allows you to create a new plot snapshot or open a previously created plot snapshot for the selected design. See Snapshots.
Set Design Set > [design set]: Allows you to assign the selected design to a new design set or a previously created design set. Using <Ctrl>, you can multi-select and assign designs to a design set.
Rerun Designs: Re-runs the selected design. Using <Ctrl>, you can select and re-run multiple designs in a design study. For more information, see Re-running Selected Designs.