[Equest-users] Parametric Runs

[Wilson, Luke]

Thank you for the information B.
I have an additional question for you or for any other Equest user that can help.

Every time that I set up a Parametric run (both with global parameters and without), Equest is able to simulate the baseline, but at the end of the Parametric simulation Equest stops and gives me the warning "An invalid argument was encountered". I then have to restart Equest to get anything to work.
If anyone has any advice that might be of help, I would appreciate it.
Thanks again,
Luke 

-----Original Message-----
From: B. Fountain [mailto:bfountain at greensim.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:11 AM
To: Wilson, Luke
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Parametric Runs

I almost never use global parameters -- just change the keyword values in
the parametric runs.  I find global parameters are useful if you want to
explicity show some value or change it outside of a parametric runs. 
Often I'll set my LPDs as global parameters so I can point them out to the
design team and show "what if..." on the fly.  But everything else I do
directly in the parametric runs.

> Equesters,
>
> I am trying to get a feel for how you set up your parametric runs. Some of
> the Equest literature suggests that you should define Global Parameters
> before defining parametric runs. Can anyone comment on when you might
> define a Global Parameter for your Parametric runs and when you might not?
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
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