Starting a New Project

The following describes how to start and prepare a project for analysis. Remember that you must create and validate your model prior to analyzing or optimizing it in SimRunner.

How to select a model:

1. Click the New button on the button bar or select New Project from the File menu.

2. From the Open dialog, select the model file you wish to use.

3. Click OK.

4. Once you select a model, the model’s name will appear in the Project Information dialog.

How to define the input factors:

1. Click on the Inputs button.

2. To select input variables, click next to each variable in the Selected column. SimRunner will mark the selected items.

Please note

SimRunner will optimize only single value RTI macros.

How to define the objective function (output variables):

1. Click the Outputs button.

2. In the Objective Function Setup dialog, select the category of the item(s) you wish to minimize or maximize.

3. Highlight an item in the list.

4. Select Maximize, Minimize, or Custom to select the type of optimization you wish to use for the variable.

5. Enter the Weighting. This number represents the importance of Maximizing or Minimizing the item. (The higher the number, the higher the importance.)

6. After you set the values for the item, click the right arrow to place the item in the selected list. To remove an item from the selected list, select the item and click the left arrow. (Alternatively, you may double click on an item to add it to or remove it from the list of selected variables.)