Creating a new system

Use File > New to create a new system. You can also click on the New button in the Global toolbar or use Ctrl+N.

When you click on the New button, a blank sketch area appears.

With the other two options, a New dialog box appears. This dialog box shows a list of available starters:

Figure 20: List of available starters

A starter is a piece of model containing icons and submodels that are commonly used for building models using a particular library. Instead of starting from scratch each time a new model of the same type must be built, you can use the corresponding starter.

It is also possible to:

• Create your own starters by clicking on the Starter radio button in the New dialog box, or

• Save an existing system as a starter by using the Save as item of the File menu and selecting Simcenter Amesim starter file (*amt) in the Files of type menu.

In these cases, the starters contain the circuit with the submodels and their parameters but also the global parameters, if any exist, and the run parameters.

The list shown above is built from:

• the path list, for the standard starters, and,

• a starter directory for the user starter systems. This starter directory is set in your application preferences (see Preferences).

Note

In the Preferences, you must set a path for your starter parent directory. In this parent directory, Simcenter Amesim will automatically create a starters sub-directory in which the starters will actually be stored.

After selecting the starter you need (a preview is available to help you), click on OK so that a new model, based on this starter, is created.

Note

• An Empty system starter can be chosen. This is equivalent to clicking on the New button in the tool bar.

• Several starters can be selected. In this case they are concatenated to create the resulting new system.