Response

Name

Enter a name to identify a response. The response name appears in the treeview.

Abbreviation

Modify the abbreviation that Adams Insight creates for your response name. Adams Insight creates shorter versions of actual response names to conserve space. Abbreviated names appear in column headings of the Design Space and Work Space tables.

Type

Select either:

For More information see Response Types.

Description

Add a description to a response. The description appears in your results when you export them to an SYLK or HTML report.

URL (Universal Resource Locator)

Add a URL (Web address) to link to a factor. If you publish your experiment results to an HTML page, you can use this option to link the factor to that page. A fully qualified URL (identifying protocol, server and specification) is recommended. For example http://simcompanion.mscsoftware.com. An easy way to get this string is to simply cut a valid URL from your browser location window.

Variable

When using Adams Insight in stand-alone mode, this text box is optional. When using Adams Insight in conjunction with an Adams modeling application, this text box contains the name of the design objective, or refers to the Fetch class that retrieves the results values.

For more information, in a command window, enter the command-line argument adams ain -examples -fetchHelp to see a list of available Fetch classes. Or, review the file <install_dir>/ainsight/examples/exa_r.py to learn how to create a user-defined Fetch class.

Units

Add units to describe your responses. Units are annotations only; they do not affect response values.

Arguments

An optional text box that lets you specify arguments that you want to pass to the post processor that you are using.

Columns

An integer value that indicates how many columns you want to allocate in the workspace matrix for this User response. The default is one.

Operation

Select a default optimization operation for this response. When you display the Optimize Model or Experiment dialog box, Adams Insight uses this option to initialize the Operation option for this response.

Target

Enter a default target value for the response. When you display the Optimize Model or Experiment dialog box, Adams Insight uses this value to initialize the Target text box for this response.

Approximate Limits

Enter default minimum and maximum value limits for the response. When you display the Optimize Model or Experiment dialog box for direct optimization, Adams Insight uses these values to initialize the Minimum and Maximum text boxes for this response. If you display the Optimization dialog box for optimizing a fitted model, Adams Insight uses the minimum and maximum values from the model instead.

Weight

Enter a default weighting factor for the response. When you display the Optimize Model or Experiment dialog box, Adams Insight uses this value to initialize the Weight text box for this response.