Modifying the Inventor®Geometry from Within the COMSOL® Model
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In the Settings window for LiveLink for Inventor, click to expand the Parameters in CAD Package section.
As you can see, the table contains a parameter, d14, which is part of the Inventor model. This parameter was selected to be linked to COMSOL in Inventor and saved in the Inventor file. Such linked parameters are retrieved and appear in the CAD name column of the table, when you click the Synchronize button. The corresponding entry in the COMSOL name column, the parameter LL_d14, is a global parameter that is generated automatically in the COMSOL model. When it is created during synchronization, LL_d14 is assigned the current value of the corresponding Inventor parameter. This value, 12.5 mm, is displayed in the COMSOL value column.
Global parameters in a COMSOL model allow you to parameterize settings and can be controlled by the parametric solver to perform parametric sweeps. Thus, by linking Inventor parameters to COMSOL global parameters, the parametric solver can automatically update and synchronize the geometry for each new value in a sweep. Here you can manually change the parameter value and synchronize.
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Note that the new parameter value is displayed in the table.
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The geometry now changes according to the value of the global parameter LL_d14 before transferring from Inventor to COMSOL. The change affected the position of the counter electrode (thin waist) on the pacemaker.