Creating User-Defined Approximations

You can create a user-defined approximation, which allows you to select the approximation technique and control all the options used by the technique. You can create user-defined approximations in the Design Gateway and the Runtime Gateway.

The following approximation techniques are available in Isight:

  • RBF Model

  • Response Surface Model

  • Kriging Model

  • Orthogonal Polynomial Model

Note: These techniques are plug-ins that have been created by SIMULIA and included with your Isight installation. You can create your own approximation technique plug-ins using the SDK Generator. For more information, see About Plug-Ins in the Isight Development Guide.

If you want to create an approximation automatically (where Isight specifies many of these options for you), see Creating Approximations. You can also create an approximation based on a previously saved coefficient file. For more information on using a coefficient file, see Creating Approximations Using a Coefficient File.

To create a user-defined approximation, you first need to select the technique and then configure each technique’s options. In addition, you must also configure options that are relevant to all the techniques.


In this section:

Creating a User-Defined Approximation Using the Radial Basis Functions (RBF) Technique
Creating a User-Defined Approximation Using the Response Surface Model (RSM) Technique
Creating a User-Defined Approximation Using the Kriging Model Technique
Creating a User-Defined Approximation Using the Orthogonal Polynomial Technique
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