MDI Insight Build

This command enables you to write all the investigation .adm and .acf files out to disk. This can be helpful if you do not want to run all the simulations in one Adams View session or if you want to distribute the jobs to multiple CPUs. This command temporarily sets solver preferences to write_files_only and creates the simulation and command files. You can subsequently use the primary driver .acf file (<prefix>_bat.acf) to run all the simulations. When all the jobs have completed successfully, you use the commands MDI INSIGHT LOAD to load the results back into the Adams Insight experiment file with the use of <prefix>_bat.cmd.

If you use the <prefix>_bat.acf file to launch all the simulations, note the following:

Once the analysis files have been written, it is important to check a few of the files to verify that the factors are actually being altered the way you expect them to. Using a text file differencing tool is a convenient way to accomplish this task.

To run the simulations external to Adams View, make sure you select the appropriate simulation script type and that you're saving the appropriate OUTPUT files. It is recommended that you perform a Perimeter Study exercising each aspect of this process before running the longer set of simulations.

Once the simulations have completed, be sure to review the simulations results by checking .req and .msg file sizes. Also, perform a grep for ERROR in the .msg files.

After the simulation results have been completed and read back into Adams Insight, make sure you review the contents of the response columns in the WorkSpace matrix.