How to run Different and Multiple Cases in DMC3 Builder?

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Products: Aspen DMC3, Aspen DMC3 Builder 
Last Updated: 13-Jul-2021
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Problem Statement
This solution provides a way to run different and multiple cases for a DMC3 Builder project.

Solution
The Model Structure of a DMC3 Builder is basically divided into two parts: Master Model and Case Folders. Inside of these Case Folders, we can create multiple cases with different vectors, parameters trials, datasets, etc.
Using this structure DMC3 builder can run a single Case that exists inside a Case Folder just by selecting the Case and Run Identify:

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or Run Identify for all cases inside the Case Folder, by selecting the Case Folder Icon and Run Identify:

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However, this structure by default does not allow you to select and run some specific cases at the same time for example we would like to run just CASE_1 and CASE_3. Unfortunately, there is not a default function that allows doing something like that, but we can take advantage of the described structure to perform this task.
The proposed workaround is basically creating a New Folder and create a copy of the cases that you would like to run inside that Folder.

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And again, by selecting the Folder and click on identify we will be able just to identify CASE_1 and CASE_3.

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Notice that Copy of CASE_1 is essentially a different case than CASE_1 (even though they have the same structure), so whatever you may change on Copy of CASE_1 will not be reflected on CASE_1

Keywords
DMC3, Cases, Model