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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.
Snapshots Reference
The following properties and right-click actions are available for snapshots in Design Manager.

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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.
  - 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.

Snapshots Reference

The following properties and right-click actions are available for snapshots in Design Manager.

Snapshots Properties


Object	Properties
Snapshots	Children Specifies the number of snapshots in the Design Manager project (read-only).
[snapshot]	Design Study Specifies the design study from which the snapshot extracts the data. Design Set Specifies a design set in the specified design study, from which the snapshot extracts the data. Scene/Plot Specifies a scene or plot in the specified design study. Scene Format/Plot Format Specifies the data format for the selected scene or plot. The options are: 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). Tags Specifies the tags for the snapshot. For more information, see Tagging Simulation Objects. Lock Design Locks the snapshot display to the specified design. Design Specifies the design to display in the snapshot. Aspect Ratio Automatically uses the Aspect Ratio from the original scene/plot. In case of an empty snapshot, the default is Fit Screen. You can change the setting using the following options: Fit Screen 16:9 16:10 4:3 1:1 Orientation Automatically uses the Orientation from the original scene/plot. In case of an empty snapshot, the default is Landscape. You can change the setting to Portrait.
Animation	Target Frame Rate (fps) Maximum number of animation frames that are displayed in one second (less for complex scenes, or when less computing power is available).
Annotations	Annotations A list of the annotations added to the snapshot. Editing the property accesses the in-place object selector to add or remove annotations.
[annotation]	Width Stretch Factor Scales the width of the annotation, with the default of 1.0 equaling 100% of the original width Height The height of the annotation as a fraction of the visualization display height, where 1.0 equals the full height Position The position of the lower left corner of the text in the Graphics window based on the specified Coordinate System. Visible When On, shows the annotation in the display. When Off, the annotation is hidden. Coordinate System Selects the type of coordinates to use for Position. Normalized Viewport: Shows x-y values as fractions of the length and height of the Graphics window display, respectively. The origin is the lower left-hand corner of that display. World: Shows x-y-z values as global coordinates. As you rotate the object, the annotation keeps its position relative to that object. Interactive When On, allows you to move the annotation in the display using the mouse. When Off, locks the position of the annotation in the display. Location Controls the visibility of the annotation relative to the objects in the display. Background: Shows the objects in front of the annotation. Foreground: Shows the annotation in front of the objects.

Snapshots Right-Click Actions


Object	Right-Click Actions
Snapshots	New > [snapshot type] Creates a new snapshot of the specified type, where [snapshot type] can be Plot or Scene. New Group Facilitates the grouping of snapshots by creating a new group node within the manager node. Group By > [snapshot property] Allows you to group snapshots according to the specified property. The following snapshot properties are available: Class—groups the snapshots into plot snapshots and scene snapshots Design Study Design Set Scene Plot Lock Design Aspect Ratio Orientation Ungroup Reverses the grouping process.
[snapshot]	Open Opens the snapshot in the Graphics window. Reset to Study Settings Resets the Aspect Ratio and Orientation to the restored original settings. Hardcopy Saves the snapshot to an image file. A customized, operating system-specific Save To File dialog appears, which allows you to write the selected snapshot to file. Linked View Allows you to link several snapshots together so that they move in tandem as you interact with one of them. Set New Tag... Creates a new tag and adds it to the selected snapshot. For more information, see Tagging Simulation Objects. Set Tags > [tag] Allows you to set a new tag or a previously created tag to the selected snapshot.
Animation	None.
Annotations
[annotation]