Data Series Reference

Design Manager data series specify the data sets that are displayed in a project plot.

Data Series Properties

Object Properties
[data set]
Input Design Study (Design Study inputs only)
Specifies the design study whose designs you want to analyze.
Input Design Sets (Design Study inputs only)
Specifies the design set of the selected design study that you want to display in the project plot.
Table (External Data inputs only)
Specifies the table selected for the particular data series.
Plotting Mode
Specifies the type of plotting method used. There are several options for this:
  • Bar: Displays data as a bar chart. A bar plot can only be created using table data, not study data.
  • Basic: Displays data as a line/symbol chart.
  • Bubble: Displays data as a bubble chart with the option to specify size and color channels
  • Contour: Displays a three-dimensional data by plotting constant slices on a two-dimensional plane.
  • Cumulative Distribution: Displays a cumulative distribution of data points as a line/symbol chart.
  • Histogram: Displays data as a Histogram. User defines which table columns are the binning and weighting data sets.
  • Monitor: Displays the monitor values from the selected design set.
  • Pareto: Displays the second listed response against the first listed response with respect to the pareto ranks. The pareto front is displayed by the points of rank 1.

    Only available for a Optimization Study with the Optimization Type Multiple Objective Tradeoff(Pareto)

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  • Performance: Displays a map for the swept operating conditions. Only available for a Smart Sweep Study.
For a selected design, only available Plotting Modes or the available Plot Types in the Plot Setup Dialog of this design study are listed.
Legend Name
Changes the legend text in the project plot display.
Lock Legend Name
When On, prevents any automatic changes to the legend name. The legend name is linked to the node name which in turn reflects the name of the part that the data series represents. Therefore, name changes to the part are automatically reflected in the name of the data series node and the legend name. If this property is activated, the current legend name is locked, effectively unlinking the property from the node name. Setting the legend name automatically activates this lock.
Show Legend Entry
When activated, shows an entry in the legend for the data series.
Tags
Specifies the tags for the design study data set. For more information, see Tagging Simulation Objects.
[axis] Data
Table Column (External Data input only)
Specifies which column in the table is being used for that particular axis.
Units (External Data input only)
If units are present within the .csv file table heading, these are available to select within the drop down menu.
Axis
Controls the axis on which the data is plotted. The choice of axes depends on the total number of axes in the project plot.
Type (Design Study inputs only)
Controls the type of data to be displayed on the axis:
  • Parameter: Displays a specific input parameter of the design study, that you specify in the corresponding Parameter child node. See 输入参数参考.
  • Response: Displays a specific response of the design study, that you specify in the corresponding Response child node. In an XY plot, when you activate the Show Constraints property, the plot highlights the field of feasible designs, where the field is determined by the constraints that you set for the specified response. See Responses Reference.
  • Design Number: Displays the identification number of the design in the design study.
  • Design Status: Displays 1 for a successful design and 0 for a design that encountered an error when it ran.
  • Design Performance: Displays the performance value calculated by SHERPA based on constraints and objectives. A higher performance value indicates a better design. For the formulation of the performance value, see also: Performance Rating.
  • Surrogate: Displays the data from the surrogate calculated in the design study. You specify which surrogate to use in the corresponding Surrogate child node with one of the following Values Type:
    • Predicted - default type for Surrogate Fit plot.

      Plots the predicted response values (bottom axis) against actual response values (left axis) along with the reference line y=x.

    • Residuals

      Plots the predicted response value minus the actual response value.

    • Cross Validation Residuals—Plots the cross validation value minus the actual response value. Default type for Actual vs Residual plot
    • PRESS Residuals

      Plots the Prediction Error Sum of Squares value minus the actual response value.

    See also: 替代模型参考.

  • Monitor: Displays the monitor values of the selected monitor(s) within the [design study] > Monitors node (not for a CAD Robustness study).

    See also: 监视器参考.

Tags
Specifies the tags for the axis data. For more information, see Tagging Simulation Objects.
Binning Options: This option is activated when the Plotting Mode is set to Histogram
Bins
Specifies the number of bins used for the plot.
Bin Spacing
Specifies how the input binned data is spaced within the histogram. There are three options for this:
  • Tied to Axis: Selects the bin method depending on whether the Logarithmic option of the x-axis is activated.
  • Linear: Distributes the data into evenly spaced bins.
  • Logarithmic: Distributes the data into evenly scaled bins. Logarthmic binning only works with positive, non-zero values. When the Data range mode property is set to Auto, negative range values are automatically rejected. When the property is set to Manual, take care to set the Manual data range min node to positive, non-zero values. Otherwise, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ generates a warning in the Output window that logarithmic binning cannot be performed.
Data range mode
Select either Auto or Manual to specify the range of data displayed. Auto Simcenter STAR-CCM+ automatically calculates the range used, whereas for Manual the range is user defined.
Data range mode
Automatically calculates the minimum value when scaling the data. By default this is set to read only.
Auto data range max
Automatically calculates the maximum value when scaling the data. By default this is set to read only
Manual data range min
Allows the user to input the minimum value for the range of data displayed
Manual data range max
Allows the user to input the maximum value for the range of data displayed
Weighting Options: This option is activated when the Plotting Mode is set to Histogram.
Weighting
Specifies the method for weighting the accumulative value of the bins. There are four options for this:
  • Frequency: Plots the weighted data by its frequency.
  • Frequency Percent: Plots the weighted data by its normalized frequency to ensure that the full histogram adds up to 100%.
  • Weighted: Plots the weighted data by its weighted distribution.
  • Weighted Percent: Plots the weighted data by its normalized weighted distribution to ensure that the full histogram adds up to 100%.
Best Design History (not for Parallel Coordinates plots and not for DOE, CAD Robustness, and Multiple Objective Tradeoff Optimization studies in XY plots)
Visible
When On, the project plot displays the path of the design study to the best design. This path passes the designs that are identified as best designs at one point during the run of the design study. The best design in a set of designs is the design with the highest performance value (see Eqn. (547)).
You specify the style of the path in the Line Style child node. See Line and Symbol Style Properties.
Legend Name
Specifies the legend text that is associated with the best design history.
Best Design (not for DOE, CAD Robustness, and Multiple Objective Tradeoff Optimization studies)
Visible
When On, the project plot marks the best design in the design study, where the best design is the design with the highest performance value (see Eqn. (547)).
You specify the style of the mark in the Symbol Style child node. See Line and Symbol Style Properties.
Legend Name
Specifies the legend text that is associated with the best design.
Baseline Design (not for DOE, Robustness and Reliability, and CAD Robustness studies)
Visible
When On, the project plot marks the baseline design. The baseline design is the first design that Design Manager runs in the design study. For the various study types, this design is determined as follows:
  • Manual: The first design that you specify in the list of designs to run.
  • Sweep: The design that combines the minimum values for all of your input parameters.
  • Optimization: The design that combines the Baseline values that you specify for each input parameter.
You specify the style of the mark in the Symbol Style child node. See Line and Symbol Style Properties.
Legend Name
Specifies the legend text that is associated with the baseline design.
Line Style Controls the appearance of the line and the point symbols for the design study data set. See Line and Symbol Style Properties.
Symbol Style

Line and Symbol Style Properties

Object Properties
Line Style
Style
Specifies the line style. For no line, specify None. Otherwise choose from options including Solid and Dash.
Width
Specifies the line width in the range [1,10].
Color
Specifies the line color. For details, see Defining Colors.
Opacity
Specifies the line opacity in the range [0.0,1.0]
Symbol Style
Shape
Specifies the symbol style. For no symbol, specify None. Otherwise choose from options including Plus and Star.
Color
Specifies the symbol color. For details, see Defining Colors.
Size
Specifies the symbol size in the range [1,20000].
Width
Specifies the symbol stroke width in the range [1.0, 2.147E9].
Spacing (not for Baseline Design, Best Design, and Pareto Ranks)
Specifies the symbol occurrence frequency in the range [1,].

Data Series Right-Click Actions

Object Right-Click Actions
[data set]
Quick Setup (only for Parallel Coordinates plots)
Opens the Data Set Quick Setup dialog to set the following properties:
  • Data Providers (read only): Displays the design study whose designs you display in the plot.
  • Axis Data: Specifies the design data type that you want to extract from the designs and display on the axes of the plot. For more details of the data type refer to [axis] Data.
  • Axis Order: Specifies the order of the axes in the plot—the first entry in the list is the leftmost axis in the plot.
  • Show axis labels and ticks on any added axes: When On, displays the axis labels and ticks on all the axes that you add manually using the New Axis right-click action of the [project plot] > Coordinates node.
Select Input
Navigates to the Input Design Study of the data set.
Tags
Add New Tag...
Creates a new tag and adds it to the [data set]. The created tag can be deleted within the Automation > Tags node.

For more information, see Tagging Simulation Objects.

Remove
Removes the tags of the data set.
Set New Tag...
Creates a new tag and sets only this new tag to the data set. The created tag can be deleted within the Automation > Tags node.
Reorder
Activates a sub-menu of four options for adjusting the order of appearance of the data set in the project plot display. See instructions for changing the order of multiple data series.
Tabulate
Displays the data of the Input Design Sets in a table view. The Best Design and Baseline designs are included in the table once Visible is activated.
Export
Exports the data of the Input Design Sets. This action uses an operating system-specific standard Save dialog to store the data points of the project plot to file. The exported file is written as comma separated values (.csv)—a format supported by many spreadsheets.
Apply Plot Options
Sets preferred plot attributes.
Assign Colors
Applies the current Color Assignment settings to the data set. For more details, refer to Color Assignment.
Rename
Renames the data set. You can also click once on the Data Series > [data set] node to rename it.
Reset Name
Sets the data set name back to the original one that tracks its input name.
Bottom Axis Data
Set New Tag...
Creates a new tag and adds it to the selected data series. For more information, see Tagging Simulation Objects.
Set Tags > [Tag]
Allows you to set a new tag or a previously created tag to the selected data series.
Left Axis Data
Best Design History (only for XY plots) None.
Best Design
Tabulate
Displays the data of the Best Design in a table view.
Export
Exports the data of the Best Design in .csv format.
Baseline Design
Tabulate
Displays the data of the Baseline Design in a table view.
Export
Exports the data of the Baseline Design in .csv format.
Line Style
Apply Plot Options
Sets preferred plot attributes.
Symbol Style