Batch Optimization using the Command Line

If you need to automate multiple optimizations, you can use the sconecmd, the SCONE command-line interface. By default, it is located in C:\Program Files\SCONE\sconecmd.exe, and can be used as follows:

"C:\Program Files\SCONE\sconecmd.exe" -o "your_scenario.scone"

The -o command line starts an optimization of a scenario. The -e command line switch can be used to evaluate a .scone or a .par file.

You can change any parameter in your .scone scenario by specifying it in the command line, for example:

sconecmd.exe -o "scenario.scone" CmaOptimizer.random_seed=10

You can also access settings by index, which is useful for settings that are not uniquely identifiable by name:

sconecmd.exe -o "scenario.scone" CmaOptimizer.SimulationObjective.CompositeController.#1.value=10

This sets the value parameter for first child of CompositeController. The second, third, etc. element can be accessed via #2, #3, etc.

For batch processing, you can create a Windows .bat file which contains multiple commands:

set SCONECMD="C:\Program Files\SCONE\bin\sconecmd.exe"
%SCONECMD% -o "scenario.scone" CmaOptimizer.random_seed=10
%SCONECMD% -o "scenario.scone" CmaOptimizer.SimulationObjective.ModelOpenSim3.model_file=data/model.osim

If you wish to run multiple optimizations in parallel, you can do so by prefixing your command with start. The first argument after start (“SCONE”) is the title of the console window that is spawned.

set SCONECMD="C:\Program Files\SCONE\bin\sconecmd.exe"
start "SCONE" %SCONECMD% -o "scenario.scone" CmaOptimizer.random_seed=10
start "SCONE" %SCONECMD% -o "scenario.scone" CmaOptimizer.SimulationObjective.ModelOpenSim3.model_file=data/model.osim

If you wish to optimize all scenarios in a folder, you can use the following .bat script to optimize all .scone scenarios in the current directory:

set SCONECMD="C:\Program Files\SCONE\bin\sconecmd.exe"
for %%f in (*.scone) do (
	start "%%f" %SCONECMD% -o "%%f"
	timeout 1
)