Simulator 16 User Guide - PowerWorld

INJECTIONGROUP INJECTIONGROUP: Directions from injection groups to other injection
groups of the system.
DeleteExisting: Set to YES or NO. YES means that previously defined directions will be deleted
before the new directions are automatically inserted. NO means automatically inserted directions
will be added to the list of previously defined directions. If this parameter is not specified, then
YES is assumed.
UseDisplayFilters: Set to YES or NO. YES means that only Areas and Zones with their
Area/Zone filters set to YES will be used when automatically inserting directions. NO specifies all
Areas and Zones will be used to automatically insert directions regardless of their Area/Zone
filters. If this parameter is not specified, then NO is assumed.
Start: Integer value that specifies the first number used when automatically numbering the
automatically inserted directions. If this parameter is not specified, then 1 is assumed.
Increment: Integer value that will be used as increment in numbering the subsequent
automatically inserted directions. If this parameter is not specified, then 1 is assumed.
DeterminePathDistance([start], BranchDistMeas, BranchFilter, BusField);
Use this action to calculate a distance measure at each bus in the entire model. The distance
measure will represent how far each bus is from the starting group specified. The distance measure
can be related to impedance, geographical distance, or simply the number of nodes.
[start] : is an the starting place which is enclosed in brackets. The starting place may be either
an Area, Zone, SuperArea, SUbstation, Injection Group, or Bus.
BranchDistMeas : is either X, Z, Length, Nodes, or a variable name for a branch.
X : means use the series reactance,
Z : means use sqrt(X^2 + R^2),
Length : means us the Length field, and
Nodes : means treat each branch as a length of one.
"variablename" : Otherwise use any Branch object variable name.
BranchFilter : is either All, Selected, Closed or the name of a branch Advanced Filter. This
parameter is used to specify which branch can be traversed at all.
All : means all branches can be traversed
Selected : means only branch whose Selected field is YES can be traversed
Closed : means only branches that are CLOSED can be traversed.
"Filtername" : means only branches who meet the Advanced Filter named can be traversed.
Advanced filters belonging to a different objecttype can also be used. The "filtername" then
takes on the form "objecttype's filtername".
BusField : is the variablename of a Bus field. This field is populated with the minimum distance
from the Start Place to that bus. All buses in the start group will have a distance measure of
zero. Buses which can not be reached from the start group will have a distance measure of -1.
DetermineShortestPath([start], [end], BranchDistanceMeasure, BranchFilter, Filename);
Use this action to calculate the shortest path between a starting group and an ending group. The
results will be written to a textfile specified by filename. In the text file, the first bus listed will be in
the end grouping and the last bus listed will be the start grouping. The result text file will have a line
for each bus passed. Each line will contain three entries delimited by a space: “Number
DistanceMeasure Name”.
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