Miscellaneous Features

Assembling Equipment

You can assemble models into larger aggregrate models by selecting Assemble Equipment from the drawing panel pop-up menu. (See Figure 2.2.) When you choose this menu item, you invoke a routine that lets you use the mouse cursor along with a rubberband rectangle to sweep out an area in the drawing panel. Any models that are entirely within this sweep area are encapsulated into a compound equipment model that you can now treat as a single model or system.

Figure C.1 shows a compound equipment model created using the sweep technique along with its associated pop-up menu.

Figure C.1: Compound Equipment Model

Among other features, the pop-up menu includes options to disassemble the compound equipment model and also to assemble new compound equipment models within this compound model. The Expose/Hide Detail menu item lets you toggle between the full view of the compound model (as shown in Figure C.1) and a smaller icon representation. You can change the icon associated with a model by selecting Tools/Modify... on the model's pop-up menu.

You can invoke the edit routine on a compound equipment or system model by selecting Edit from the pop-up menu. This routine creates a separate window for modifying the contents of the compound equipment model. All the functionality of the drawing panel is available in the edit window. Having a separate edit window is particularly useful when you have a large system or compound equipment model that has been reduced to icon format and you want to view your network model while editing the compound equipment model.

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