{"id":9416,"date":"2026-02-22T23:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/?echo_kb_faq=can-parametric-design-be-done-with-an-sof-that-is-run-simulations-with-variable-geometric-parameters-such-as-the-separation-between-dipoles-in-an-array"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:44:42","slug":"can-parametric-design-be-done-with-an-sof-that-is-run-simulations-with-variable-geometric-parameters-such-as-the-separation-between-dipoles-in-an-array","status":"publish","type":"echo_kb_faq","link":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/?echo_kb_faq=can-parametric-design-be-done-with-an-sof-that-is-run-simulations-with-variable-geometric-parameters-such-as-the-separation-between-dipoles-in-an-array","title":{"rendered":"Can parametric design be done with AN-SOF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Parametric design is achieved by utilizing the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/knowledge-base\/running-a-bulk-simulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bulk Simulation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0feature. This allows you to use your preferred programming language to generate a sequence of files in NEC format with one or more variable parameters. AN-SOF can then process these files automatically in a single batch. For script generation, we recommend\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scilab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scilab<\/strong><\/a>, a free numerical calculation tool that can be used to program scripts for creating multiple antenna descriptions with varying parameters. You can download an example of a Yagi-Uda antenna with variable element spacing at\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/knowledge-base\/yagi-uda-vs-element-spacing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to see this workflow in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Parametric design is achieved by utilizing the\u00a0Bulk Simulation\u00a0feature. This allows you to use your preferred programming language to generate a sequence of files in NEC format with one or more variable parameters. AN-SOF can then process these files automatically in a single batch. For script generation, we recommend\u00a0Scilab, a free numerical calculation tool that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"echo_kb_faq_category":[109],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq\/9416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/echo_kb_faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq\/9416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20903,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq\/9416\/revisions\/20903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"echo_kb_faq_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq_category?post=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}