The Material Sweep (
) study step is a special case of Parametric Sweep, where the solver sweeps over materials defined under a
Switch node defined under
Global Definitions>Materials (see
Switch for Materials). After running a material sweep, you can select from the swept materials from a
Switch list in the
Data section of plot nodes, for example, to postprocess and visualize the material sweep (solutions for the different materials that the sweep includes).
Add information to the table for each column: Switch,
Cases, and
Case numbers. Use the
Move Up (
),
Move Down (
),
Add (
), and
Delete (
) buttons under the table to organize the data. Use the
Add (
) button to add a list of existing material
Switch nodes in the
Switch column. From the list under
Cases, select
All to sweep over all material nodes under the switch. For
User defined, define a list of materials to switch between as positive integers, representing the first material from the top under the
Switch node as 1, the second function as 2, and so on.