Tutorials

For this tutorial, we assume that you have a simulation running, and it is properly using the high-performance GPU on your system.

Close the “Start Here” Panel, and open the “Modify Visualization” Panel:

First, click on the “Colorbar Choices.”  You will see that there are a number of different colormaps.  For example, change the colormap to “Turbo”:

The colorbar is displayed at the bottom of the animation – scroll down to see it.  To change the limits of the color axis, change the Color Axis Values.  For example, change the limits to map from -2 to 4:

The webpage layout is composed of three main elements.

On the left side, there are a series of configuration “Panels.”  Each of these Panels can be maximized and minimized. 

In the center are the simulation windows.  When running a simulation, a 2D plan view (the simulation canvas) of the running model is displayed.  Underneath the model animation is a Parameter window and a Time Series display window.

On the right side is the Console where you will see a listing of messages, indicating the progress of the simulation.  This is useful for debugging.  Most importantly, if you see no text in the Console after starting a simulation, the model is not running!

To run an example, examine the “Start Here: Load Simulation Datafiles“ panel.  There is a “Run Example Simulation” button, and a drop-down menu above it, filled with pre-configured examples.