Reusing Components
In Adams Insight, you can reuse many components of existing experiments. When you reuse components, Adams Insight updates your current experiment to use as many of the attributes and settings of the old experiment as possible. As a result, you can efficiently rerun an old experiment if the new experiment has few changes.
Learn how to reuse components.You can reuse the following:
You can also reuse all factors, responses, and design specifications from an experiment.
When you run Adams Insight with the reuse option, either from the command line with -reuse or from Adams View using the Reuse Experiment option, Adams Insight loads the experiment and reuses the specified old experiment. If Adams Insight can recreate a valid workspace, it does so and then immediately exits without displaying the Adams Insight window. This allows you to use Adams Insight in a batch mode, either from an Adams View .cmd or from the command line. As long as the experiment has the same number of factors and the factors have the same general characteristics, you can use Adams Insight to regenerate the workspace and immediately exit. Some common uses of this feature are changing factor nominal values or limits, or adding or removing responses.
Note: | Reuse only updates the information in the target experiment with matching information from the referenced experiment. For example, if the referenced experiment has additional or unique responses that do not exist in the target experiment, they are not brought in. |
Reusing Factors
When you reuse factors, Adams Insight:
■Promotes any factors that match old inclusion factors by name.
■Creates ties in the inclusion factors (if there are factors matching old tied factors by name and type).
■Updates most attributes for inclusion factors that match old inclusion factors by name and type.
Reusing Responses
When you reuse responses, Adams Insight:
■Promotes any responses that match old inclusion responses by name.
■Updates most attributes for inclusion responses that match old inclusion responses by name and type.
Reusing Design Specifications
When you reuse design specifications, Adams Insight does one of the following:
■Copies the design and regenerates the Work Space (if the new inclusion factors are identical to the old inclusion factors).
■Regenerates the design from the old specification (if the factors are not identical, but there are the same number of inclusions as the old experiment and the new inclusions have the same numbers of levels as the old inclusions).
■Copies only the design specification (if there is a different number of inclusion factors or different numbers of levels).
To reuse a component:
1. From the File menu, point to Reuse, and then select the menu item for the component you want to import.
A file selection dialog box displays.
2. Select the experiment file that contains the components you want to reuse.
3. Select OK.