External Responses using Altair Compose

Invoking Compose to specify the installation path.

If Altair Compose needs to be invoked during the OptiStruct job in case of external responses (DRESP3), the installation path for Compose must to be specified by the user.

There are 2 methods to specify the installation path from the Compute Console (ACC).

Edit > Preferences

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Options field

For further details, refer to -compose in Run Options.

Regarding the implementation of external, user-defined routines using Open Matrix Language (OML), refer to the documentation for Compose OML for writing scripts.

Compose is supported on Windows and Linux operating systems.