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Simple Layout
This tutorial will introduce the Layout View and demonstrate the steps required
to create and compute a 5 node design. Begin by starting the program and selecting
File/New. An Untitled project will be created.
The Layout view is located adjacent to the TreeView. The Layout View might not
be the view with focus in the initial condition. For new projects, the default
is the Current Activity View. Since it is a new project, the program attempts
to show you the Engenious Systems Home pages.
To switch to the layout view, click on the
button in the toolbar.
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When the mouse is clicked anywhere in the Layout View menu, the
buttons on the Toolbar become active.
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Before we can begin, we must first define the initial layout. The default
layout is Untitled, but we can quickly change it by right mouse clicking on the
Untitled layout in the treeview and selecting Properties.
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When the dialog appears, fill in the information shown and press the OK
button.
With the initial layout created, we can turn our attention to placing nodes and
reaches on the layout. On the toolbar press the
 button. This button is a
toggle that instructs the program that mouse clicks in the Layout View are for the
purpose of inserting Nodes and Reaches. After pressing them, the buttons should
appear depressed.
Notice that when the mouse is over the button, a brief description of the button
appears along the bottom border of the application.
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Click 4 times from the upper left to the lower right. We are entering the Nodes
from upstream to downstream. This is very important, alway insert nodes from upstream
to downstream.
Notice that the program inserts the nodes and the reach connecting them.
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Before we can insert the remaining node, we must click on the
button. This is important to inform the program that we are starting a new branch
in the tree.
Now we are ready to insert the side branch. Remember insert from the upstream to
downstream. Notice that the second node is an existing one. Just click on it.
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Before we get too far along, we should save this as a real project. Select File/SaveAs
and save this project to a temporary directory. Give it the name Tutorial2.wwk
Next we want to toggle the labels to show the current Node Id. There are two
buttons on the tool bar for this purpose. The
button toggles the node labels and the
button toggles the reach labeling. Click on each until the PROTOTYPE labels
are displayed.
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The strategy is to systematically define all the Nodes, then all the Reaches. The
reason is because if a reach is defined before the adjoining Nodes are defined the
program will not attach the correct node to each end of the reach.
Double click on the Node< at the upper left corner. It will present itself as
a PROTOTYPE Node. Using the New Node button create a new one (see
the Simple Detention Tutorial if you don't know how). Just accept the auto assigned
label. Make all the Nodes of type MH and leave the elevations alone.
Instead of pressing the Close button when you are done, press the
Apply button. Pressing the Apply button lets the
program know that the object you double clicked on is to be assigned the ID N-001.
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Next move the dialog out of the way and double click on the next downstream Node.
Use the New Node button to define a node for it and again, press
the Apply button.
Repeat this procedure for all the other nodes. For the last Node, press the
Apply button, then press the OK button.
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For the reaches, we will do the same thing. Double click on each reach from top
to bottom. For each one, we will press the New Rch button to create
a new record. Just accept the auto labels. In each case, instead of pressing the
OK button, press the Apply button, move to the
next reach in the layout and double click on it. Make all reachs of type Circular.
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