Chapter 22: Cloning Designs and Scenarios
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The greatest savings in time and money are rarely realized by running a single analysis. The true benefits of Upfront CFD come from running multiple analyses to compare different designs and different operating conditions. Autodesk® CFD enables you to do this quickly and easily be leveraging your first analysis and allowing you to make copies – called “clones” – that are easily updated.
Remember that an analysis has at least one Design, or unique geometry, associated with it. Each Design has at least one Scenario – set of operating conditions, materials, etc. – associated with it. You can clone either of these to leverage the work you have already accomplished.
Cloning a scenario
Clone a scenario to study the effects of changing analysis settings or parameters on the same geometry configuration. Some examples of settings include the following:
- Materials
- Boundary Conditions
- Mesh Settings
- Environment settings
To clone a scenario
- Right click on a scenario in the Design Study Bar
- Select clone, and assign a name.
Modify the settings as needed, and run the analysis.
Cloning a design
Clone a design to study the effects of different geometry configurations:
To clone a design
- Right click on the design name in the Design Study bar, and select Clone. Assign a name.
- Return to the CAD system and modify the design.
- Launch into Autodesk® CFD.
- In the Design Study Manager select the Design you wish to update (usually the newly added clone).
- In Autodesk® CFD, confirm that no settings are lost and run the analysis.
After solving all analyses, compare them to each other in the Decision Center.