Installing Source
Outlined below are the minimum recommended system requirements for installing Source. Note that software installation may require the assistance of a system administrator.
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Upto 5GB of available space may be required, and maintaining a free hard disk space of at least 16GB is recommended.
For large models 32 GByte of RAM is recommended, and a minimum of four cores. For large catchment models the more cores the better.
If using Insight, you will also need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package, 32-bit version (for both 32 and 64-bit machines): available here.
Generally, .NET comes with Windows updates. However, if Windows updates are not installed on your computer, you may not be getting .NET updates.
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Launching Source
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If you are unable to login due to because of firewall issues, an auto-generated bypass code allows you to work offline. In this case, the dialog shown in Figure 2 appears.
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The following toolbars (available from the main Source screen) allow you direct access to various sections of Source:
- Data Sources toolbar - allows you to add and manage sources of data (time series or by linking to another scenario). You can edit or view this data once it has been loaded in the Data Sources Explorer;
- File toolbar - allows you to create a new project, opening an existing project, and saving a project (and all the scenarios within that project);
- Function manager toolbar - allows you to add and manage all functions and expressions in Source;
- Ordering toolbar - provides quick access to ordering-related functions. The button on this toolbar reveals a pop-up menu;
- Project toolbar - allows you to toggle view of the Project Explorer, Recording Manager, Log Reporter and Chart Recording Manager;
- Recording Manager toolbar - allows you to manage results in the Recording Manager;
- Scenario toolbar - allows you to hide or display the Geographic Editor, Schematic Editor and Tabular Editor, the Function Manager, Data Sources, the Node Palette, the Layer Manager and Location Control panels; and
- Simulation toolbar - allows you to set the analysis type (single, stochastic or flow calibration), specify start and end dates for the simulation, and to run the catchment model.
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Figure 15. Notes, Overview
Refer to Adding notes to nodes and links for adding notes to nodes and links. For function, refer to Adding a note to a function.
A summary of all the notes configured in a scenario can be viewed using View » Notes. For the example shown in Figure 16, the Inflow1 node, the $AllocGS function and the Default Link #1 link have notes associated with them.
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