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Procedure 3.25 Adding comments and modifying appearance You can adjust the visual appearance of our plan. For example, clicking on a flow arrow, you can redirect it by moving the black markers on the corners. With a double click you see the properties of that flow and can change the colour of the flow arrow. You can also add comments to your model. This is only a visual element and does not affect the calculations made using the model. Clicking on the Comment icon inserts a new comment into your model. You will notice the comment window opens where you can select the background colour and font colour as well as entering the text. 86. Click on the „Comment‟ button and choose a background colour for the box and font colour 87. Write the comment: „This model contains some non representative assumptions.‟ 88. Click „OK.‟ 89. You can now resize and move this box as if it were a process. You can now play around with your model and resize, relocate and redirect your processes and flow arrows to make it look the way you prefer. Remember that your model should reflect the real life situation. 90. Save and close your plan. You have now completed modelling. 3.26 Creating and saving a balance If you have not completed the tutorial up to this point, you can open the “Tutorial Model” plan. This plan contains a finished version of the model built during chapters 3, 4 and 5. In order to analyse the environmental impacts of your modelled paper clip you have to create a balance. A GaBi balance is a file containing all the calculated results for the modelled system and includes all of the LCI results as well as the LCIA results. Create a balance of the Life Cycle Steel Paper Clip plan now. 50
Procedure 91. Click on the „Balance‟ icon in the plan window. The Balance window will open. This window allows you to choose how you would like to view the LCI and LCIA results. You can also view the results of the Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Working Time analysis here. Since you did not enter any information in these tabs earlier in the tutorial, there are no results generated here. We can skip these tabs. You can save the balance separately by clicking on the save button. The balance will be saved in the balances folder of your database. You find your balances in the object hierarchy of your GaBi DB Manager right above your plans. 92. Save your balance, but remember if you change anything on your plan, you have to calculate and save a new balance. 3.27 View option: IO Tables At the moment you see two lists showing the input and output flows that are related to your plan “Life Cycle Steel Paper Clip”. In GaBi, this view is called the separate input output tables. In the top right you can see a number of options and drop down menus. 93. Deactivate the option „Separate IO tables.‟ The input and output tables will be merged. If there are matching flows on both the input and the output side of the LCI, the input and output amounts will be aggregated. 51
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