The Design Study Manager is an interactive tool for coordinating your CAD models and Design Studies in real-time.
It is a powerful way to manage Design Studies, Designs, and Scenarios. It allows you to easily update them from your CAD tool without having to exit Autodesk Simulation CFD.
The Design Study Manager opens automatically when you launch Autodesk Simulation CFD from CAD. It is highly versatile, and contains several functions:
Notes
- For most CAD tools, you do not have to exit from Autodesk Simulation CFD to perform these tasks. The exception is when launching from Pro/Engineer using the Mechanica mode. In this case, it is necessary to close Autodesk® Simulation CFD before modifying the CAD model.
- All CAD geometry launched into a design study must exist in the same directory. Launching a CAD model from a different directory from the other designs in a design study is not supported.
- All designs in a Study should have consistent dimensionality (all 2D or all 3D).
- The Design Study Manager lists all of the Design Studies that it finds on the local computer. They are presented in a tree view that shows the Designs and associated Scenarios when expanded. To prevent the list from becoming too crowded, use the Remove design study from list icon. This removes selected Design Studies from the view. These Studies are not removed from the computer. To add a Design Study back to the list, click the Add design study to list icon, and select it from the Browse dialog.