Compare Designs platform for Space-Filling designs

[Victor_G]

What inspired this wish list request? 

When creating or importing custom model-based designs, the Compare Designs platform helps comparing and selecting a design based on a model and depending on various metrics and criteria : Power analysis, prediction variance profile and FDS plot, relative estimation efficiencies, aliases matrix and correlations, and optimality efficiencies and average variance of prediction.
When creating or importing Space-Filling designs, it may be difficult for practitioners to compare the benefits and tradeoffs between different design types (Fast Flexible, Uniform, Latin Hypercube, ...). MaxPro and discrepancy values are displayed only on each specific design diagnostic panel, so unless scripting a solution (which might be technically complex) to extract these values from several generated designs, there is no workaround to get access to this information and compare several designs.

Idea inspired by the topic Get MaxPro value for any Space-Filling design. 

What is the improvement you would like to see? 
When importing or creating Space-Filling designs, I would like to have a "Compare Designs"-like platform, that enables to link factors from each design to compare them. The comparative evaluation of Space-Filling designs could involve the display of various metrics like MaxPro values, discrepancy and/or Min/Max/Average/Range/StdDev distance between points, which may help compare Space-Filling designs type based on the homogeneity of the points dispersion and the volume/distance covered by points in the design. 

Why is this idea important? 
Currently, comparing Space-Filling designs is difficult and complex, as there is no built-in platforms for this in JMP. This requires a lot of manual work, from extracting the distance between points (using Hierarchical Clustering and saving the Distance Matrix), to the analysis of the distances. A comparison example is available in JMP Help : Example Comparison of Sphere-Packing, Latin Hypercube, and Uniform Methods (jmp.com), but I would find more useful if the user could generate the comparison easily with any design (created or imported), without the need for scripting or long time (to calculate distance between points and then process the information). 

[mia_stephens]

Great suggestion @Victor_G , thank you for sharing!