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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 Studies Reference
The following properties and right-click actions are available for design studies in Design Manager.
Plot Reference
The following properties and right-click actions are available for plots in a design study (not for a CAD Robustness study).

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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.
    - Input Parameters Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for input parameters.
    - Responses Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for responses.
    - Monitors Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for monitors in a design study (not for a CAD Robustness study).
    - Scenes Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for scenes in a design study.
    - Plot Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for plots in a design study (not for a CAD Robustness study).
    - Settings Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for the settings of a design study in Design Manager.
    - Smart Sweep Settings Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for the Smart Sweep Settings node when the Study Type is set to Smart Sweep in Design Manager.
    - Design Seeds Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for design seeds in Design Manager.
    - Design Sets Reference
      The following properties and right-click actions are available for design sets 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.
  - 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.

Plot Reference

The following properties and right-click actions are available for plots in a design study (not for a CAD Robustness study).

Plots Properties

Plots: Specifies the plots from the reference simulation that you want to save for each design in the design study. You can analyze the plots in Design Manager using Snapshots.

[plot] Properties

Aspect Ratio

Uses the ratio of width to height of the associated plot in the reference simulation.

Orientation

Uses the orientation of the associated plot in the reference simulation.

Plot Format

Specifies one or multiple formats of the output file from:

Star-View+ File: Writes the scene or plot to a Viewer file (.sce), which allows you to work with the same three-dimensional image that you had in Simcenter STAR-CCM+. You can open a *.sce file in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer.
Hardcopy: Writes the scene or plot to a portable network graphics file (*.png).

[plot] Right-Click Actions

Relink Plot: Allows you to associate the selected plot to another plot from the reference simulation. This option is particularly useful if changes in the reference simulation break the link to the associated object.