v16.04 news: post-run Local Design dialog
There's a change you should know about
Excerpt from the 16.04 notes
[+-] Local design data “Select-Profile”-dialog: In earlier Ebsilon versions when the calculation profile and the destination profile for storing the calculated nominal values were identical, the specification value “FMODE” was always set to “local off-design”. This was in general an undesired behavior.
DK note: undesirable because you probably want that profile — where you are designing the component — to stay in Local Design mode!
DK note: when you chose a different profile (one commonly chooses the Design profile to push the design data into) the old behavior was correct: it set the FMODE in the target profile to Local Off-Design. This behavior is NOT changed, which is a good thing!
As solution for this problem [when choosing the current profile as the target], a combo box for controlling the update of “FMODE” was added. The following options are available:
If profiles different, set to “local off-design” [default for new models]
Set to "local off-design
Do not change
The chosen setting will be stored in the model.
Here’s the old dialog
This appears whenever the profile has components in Local Design:
This is the new dialog
Note the new options at the bottom.
Final thought
The default selection for the “FMODE update” option seems good.
If profiles different, set to “local off-design”.
This covers the scenarios well.
If the target profile is different, you probably want FMODE set to “local off-design”.
The text implies that if the target profile is the current profile, it won’t touch FMODE, and that is the case. That’s probably what you want. If you want to flip the FMODE in the current profile to “local off-design”, you can select that option.