Materials as Variables in Design Studies

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• Materials as Variables in Evaluation Design Studies
  

  You can evaluate scenarios of your design by varying the material for selected bodies without performing optimization.

• Materials as Variables in Optimization Design Studies
  

  You can include materials as variables in optimization design studies. The software creates interpolation groups and runs the optimization process within each group.

• Adding a Material Parameter
  

  You can evaluate a wide range of design choices or optimize a current design by defining a parameter that sets bodies to use different materials as a design study variable. The bodies can belong to single-body or multibody parts.

• Assigning Materials as Variables
  

  After you create material parameters and link the bodies whose material will be parameterized, you specify a material or group of materials to apply.