The software installation includes demo models and completed tutorial models that you build while working through
the Activate tutorials. You can access the models from the Demo Browser or installation directories.
The application workspace includes a combination of tools, browsers and palettes of predefined and programmable blocks
to help you easily construct and simulate dynamical system models.
The software provides a configurable model display and easy navigation within model
hierarchy and between multiple models.
You can navigate through the hierarchy of a model in three ways: from the diagram
displayed in the modeling
window, from the Project Browser or from the
navigation bar. The following image shows you a main diagram
of a bouncing ball model:
To navigate from the modeling window, on a super block in the main diagram of
a model, double-click.
The main diagram closes and the diagram inside of the super block opens
on the screen. You can continue to drill down through each layer of super blocks
in this way. The following image shows you the Xposition super block of the
bouncing ball model.
To navigate from the Project
Browser, double-click a super block on the tree.
The blocks inside of the super block display in the tree and in the
modeling window. The
following image shows you the level of blocks that are included in the tree view
of the bouncing ball model:
To navigate from the navigation bar, click . The navigation opens and lists the main diagram and
its associated super blocks: