Paper_Clip_Tutorial Part1.pdf - GaBi Software

17.02 GaBi Dashboard
Procedure
The dashboard 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
Environment analyses here.
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.
90. Save your balance, but remember if you change anything on your plan, you have to
calculate and save a new balance.
At the moment you see a series of charts showing the life cycle impact asessement results
for the paper clip model. You are currently viewing the global warming potential, acidification
potential and other impacts.
You can drill down into these results by clicking on a column to view the next level of the
model. In this case you can view the results for the sub plan that you created for the end of
life phase.
91. Click on the ‘End of life paper clip’ column to view the results.
This view gives us an excellent overview of the environmental impacts or the LCIA.
GaBi includes a number of predefined dashboards designed to allow you to better understand
the results of your study. Here, you can see dashboards for various impact assessment
methodologies.
The LCIA – CML tab displays all of the CML impact category impact assessment results.
Likewise, the LCIA - TRACI tab displays all of the impact assessment results according to
that impact assessment methodology.
Using the i-report tab, you can create interactive reports – you can learn how to do that in
part 2 of the paper clip tutorial.
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