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Design Explorer
Evaluate designs by using geometric variables and applying a design-of-experiments (DOE) or optimization method. We recommend fully constraining your sketch when sketch variables are used in the design exploration.
Evaluate
Use the Evaluate tools to run the exploration and review reports.
Design Explorer Results
Use the Results Explorer tool to review results.
DOE
Use the Results Explorer tool to review results for DOE.
Linear Effects
Visualize the relative effects that design variables and output responses have on DOE explorations.

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Parametric Modeling
Create parametric sketches, geometry, and PolyNURBS with construction history and variables.
Implicit Modeling
Create implicit models with primitives, lattices, point clouds, fields, offsetting, Booleans, inverting, smoothing, morphing, and filleting.
Structures
Set up your model and run a structural analysis or optimization.
Motion
Set up and run a motion analysis, plot the results, and export the results.
Fluids
Prepare and run a computational fluid dynamics simulation.
Design Explorer
Evaluate designs by using geometric variables and applying a design-of-experiments (DOE) or optimization method. We recommend fully constraining your sketch when sketch variables are used in the design exploration.
- Variables
  Create and assign variables to parametrize a model. This allows you to quickly iterate and compare design concepts by tweaking the values of the variables.
- Open the Design Explorer Browser
  The Design Explorer Browser displays a hierarchical view of your design setup and can be used to enable and disable exploration parameters.
- Explorations
  An exploration is a DOE or optimization simulation. Each exploration must include design variables and responses. Optimizations must also include an objective and optionally constraints.
- Design Variables
  Design variables are changes of the geometric variables that influence the performance of certain analyses. Geometric variables may be sketch dimensions, lengths, angles, or push/pulls. Geometric constraints are minimum and maximum values for the defined variables. These constraints are specified in the Design Variable tab and the variable's value will vary within the exploration.
- Responses
  An output response is a measurement of system performances, such as mass, volume, displacement, or stress.
- Goals
  Goals comprise objectives and constraints.
- Evaluate
  Use the Evaluate tools to run the exploration and review reports.
  - Evaluate Explorations
    Export files to the output directory and run the exploration simulations.
  - Run Status
  - Design Explorer Results
    Use the Results Explorer tool to review results.
    - DOE
      Use the Results Explorer tool to review results for DOE.
      - Summary Table
        Once an exploration is complete, review a summary of design variables and output response values in tabular format.
      - Linear Effects
        Visualize the relative effects that design variables and output responses have on DOE explorations.
      - Trade-off
        Predict response values resulting from different design variable choices.
      - Scatter Plots
        Plot exploration inputs and outputs.
    - Optimization
      Use the Results Explorer tool to review results for optimizations.
Manufacture
Set up and run a basic porosity or thinning analysis.
Print 3D
Prepare and run an additive manufacturing simulation, and export a file for 3D printing.
Rendering
Adjust the materials and environment of objects in the scene to create a photorealistic image.
Inspire Python API
Learn how to access the Inspire Python API including online help, quick start demos, and the Extension Manager.
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Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Controls
Learn keyboard shortcuts and mouse controls for common operations.

Linear Effects

Visualize the relative effects that design variables and output responses have on DOE explorations.

From the Design Explorer ribbon, Evaluate tool group, click the Results Explorer tool.

Tip: To find and open a tool, press Ctrl+F. For more information, see Find and Search for Tools.

The Results Explorer browser opens.
In the Results Explorer browser, click the Linear Effects icon .
Select an output response from the Select response drop-down menu.
Visualize the results using the table and the modeling window.
The linear plot in the Results Explorer browser shows the relative effect that a design variable has on the model for a selected response. The larger the number, the larger the impact of the given variable, relative to the other variables. The coloring of the effects indicates whether a given effect has a positive or negative effect.

Positive effects are shown in shades of blue and indicate that a positive change in the design variable results in a positive change on the response.

Negative effects are shown in shades of brown and indicate that a positive change in the design variable results in a negative change on the response. For example, an increase in the Rib_01_flange thickness variable is expected to result in a significant decrease in the Z-displacement response, relative to all other variables.
Figure 1.

The contour plot and legend in the modeling window help you to further visualize the linear effects.
Figure 2.
Select rows in the plot table to isolate and locate the given variable in the model.