Optimisation Tips and Tricks |
SPEEDING UP OPTIMISATION Optimisation studies require hundreds or even thousands of simulations to be carried out and so can be extremely time/calculation intensive. To help speed simulations, you could consider using one or more of these techniques:
See also Working with Large Models. ENSURE INHERITANCE PATH It is important to ensure that the variations defined by the optimisation Design Variables will have the intended effect. Optimisation works by applying variations to a copy of the base model and these changes are applied to the object defined in the Variable. It is important to take into account how this data will be inherited to down to any child blocks, zones etc to ensure you are testing the design variants you think you are. For example if the Window to wall % was hard set at block level then changes in this data at building level would not influence the surfaces of the design variants and the results will indicate that the Window to wall % does not influence results.
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