The Associations view

The Associations view

Through the Associations view you can associate Simcenter Amesim parameters with certain widgets.

To do this:

Procedure

1. Press the + button to add a new association.

2. Double click on the first field to select the widget (showing the objectName properties of all widgets).

3. Double click on the property field to select the property you want to associate.

4. And finally, drag and drop the Simcenter Amesim parameter to the datalink field:

Figure 58: The Associations view

Results

When making such associations you actually define a bi-directional link. This means that a change in the editor will invoke the same change in the Simcenter Amesim parameter and vice-versa.

As can be seen in the above screenshot the datalink can however take different formats.

The absolute format is for example nstages@signal03 which resolves to the nstages parameter from the signal03 component.

The relative format srate@# resolves to the srate parameter from the component onto which the app is attached. This only applies to Component and Library apps.

This relative format helps if we do a copy and paste of the Component since the copied app will translate the associations correctly onto the new component.

With the absolute format the associations would still point to the original component which is in most cases not what we wanted.

By default when you drag and drop a parameter into the association view for Component apps we generate this relative format.

The third example shows a combination of relative format and entry into supercomponents.

The association srate@#.springdamper01 points to the srate parameter #.springdamper01 component which means the springdamper01 component inside the component to which the app is attached.

Also this format is generated by default on drag and drop of a parameter which is inside a supercomponent to which your Component app is attached.

Note

• You can also type in the datalink directly.

• Associations are limited to component parameters.

The filter box allows you to quickly display only specific associations. The term entered in the field is searched for in all columns. Only the rows that contain the word in at least one column are displayed.