User's guide of Proceessing Modflow 5.0

196 Processing Modflow
5. Modeling Tools
5.1 The Digitizer
To activate the digitizer, choose Digitizer from the Tools Menu. The Digitizer is based on the
Data Editor. Using the Digitizer you can digitize, shift or delete points and assign a value to
each of these points. An additional menu item Points in the Value menu allows you to delete all
digitized points or save or load the points in or from an XYZ file. An XYZ file can be accepted
by the Field Interpolator and has the following format:
N first line of the file; N is the number of digitized points;
The maximum allowed number is 10,000.
X , Y , Z second line of the file
1 1 1
X , Y , Z third line of the file
2 2 2
.
.
X , Y , Z (i+1)-th line of the file
i i i
.
.
X , Y , Z last line of the file
N N N
< To digitize a point
1. Click the Digitize button
You don’t need to click the icon if its relief is already sunken.
2. Click the mouse cursor on the desired position to set a point.
< To shift a digitized point
1. Click the Digitize button
2. Point the mouse cursor to a digitized point, holding down the left mouse button while
moving the mouse.
3. Release the mouse button when the point is moved to the desired position.
< To delete a digitized point
1. Click the Digitize button
2. Hold down the Ctrl-key and click the mouse cursor on a point.
Modeling Tools