The Optimization Process Manager

The Optimization Process Manager allows you to create and configure an optimization process and to edit, copy, rename or delete the selected optimization process.

Related Topics
Understanding optimization processes
Creating, editing, and manipulating optimization processes

In addition, the Optimization Process Manager allows you to do the following:

  • Write copies of the TOSCA parameter (.par) file and the Abaqus input (.inp) file to your working directory.

  • Validate the optimization before submitting an optimization process to ensure that the optimization task has been configured correctly and the Abaqus model exists.

  • Submit an optimization process.

  • Restart an optimization process that has failed because of a problem external to the optimization or the Abaqus analysis, such as a failure to obtain an Abaqus license.

  • Monitor the progress of an optimization process.

  • Extract a smooth isosurface meshed representation of the optimized model surface in the form of a file that can be transferred to a CAD system or back into Abaqus/CAE.

  • Combine the optimization results and the analysis results created by an optimization process into a single results output database file that can be displayed by the Visualization module.

  • View the results of an optimization process.

You can display the Optimization Process Manager by selecting Optimization Process ManagerManager from the main menu bar. Figure 1 shows the layout of the Optimization Process Manager.

Figure 1. The Optimization Process Manager.

The four columns of the Optimization Process Manager display the following:

Name

The Name column displays the name of the optimization process. Click Rename to rename the selected optimization process.

Model

The Model column displays the Abaqus/CAE model associated with the optimization process.

Task

The Task column displays the optimization task associated with the optimization process.

Status

The Status column displays the status of the jobs in the optimization process and is updated continually while the optimization process is running. The status can be one of the following:

None

The optimization process has not been submitted for analysis.

Submitted

The optimization process is being submitted.

Running

The optimization process has been submitted and is running.

Completed

The optimization process has run to completion.

Aborted

The optimization process has been aborted due to problems such as fatal errors in one of the models or lack of disk space.

Terminated

The optimization process has been terminated by the user.