Important rules for customized objects

customized objects important rules

Comments in this section are important but you may not fully understand their significance at a first reading. We suggest you reread the section after completing the tutorial examples.

Customized submodels and customized supercomponents

In order to use a customized submodel in an Simcenter Amesim model, the corresponding generic submodel must be available, and in particular its compiled code (.o or .obj) must exist.

A customized supercomponent can be used in an Simcenter Amesim model even if the corresponding generic supercomponent is deleted or unavailable.

Distribution of a system containing customized objects

encryption

Simcenter Amesim is increasingly used as a model exchange software. Customization with encryption is an important part of this process.

Suppose you send a compiled Simcenter Amesim system containing one or more customized objects distributing to other users customized objects to another user. The AMEPack facility in Simcenter Amesim is designed to make this easy.

The user can run the system in Simcenter Amesim Run. Using Simcenter Amesim it is also possible to run the system, but if the executable has to be recreated, the following files are needed:

• The object files of the generic submodels corresponding to the customized submodels,

• The object files of the generic submodels used in the customized supercomponent constituents.

However the following files are NOT strictly needed:

• Any .spe files and .c (or .f) files of generic submodels.

• Any .spe files of customized submodels.

• Any .spe and .sub files of any generic or customized supercomponents.

If confidentiality is important, use the above information to minimize the files you send in the package.