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Old 05-25-2010
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Default Problem with Optquest

HI,
I attached a small model discribing a problem I got when testing Optquest: I would like to optimize the output of a simple line (source-conveyor-sink) by modifying the conveyor lenght. The problem is that optquest will test the scenarios but the user-controlled variable (Output) didn't change with these scenarios, It stay with the value based on the initial conveyor lenght!
Is the choice of the "conveyorlenght" variable as a decision variable the problem?
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Simon,

You change the variable conveyorlength.

But you need to change the variable length:
>variables/sections/section 1/length

because this is the section length which will update the other variables (conveyorlength and seclength).
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Hi,

You could also use the Virtual Length for the conveyor the variable name for this is userlength.


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