SEAMCAT Handbook (pdf) - Cept

3 CREATING, OPENING, SAVING A WORKSPACESEAMCAT organises all its input and output information in a so called workspace, which may be seen both asoperating environment for given study and as a container/file, storing:simulation technical data, also known as simulation scenario containing all input data: equipmentparameters, placement and propagations settings, etc.simulation control parameters: number of events, debugging logging, etc.simulation results : event generation results and interference probability calculation results.Before starting, there is a need to either create a new workspace (1) or open an existing one (2) as shown in Figure 12.When creating or opening a workspace, SEAMCAT automatically presents the filename in the tree folder as shown in(4). By default, a new workspace will be called NewWorkspace_xyz. The user can change the name. When creating anew simulation workspace, the victim link and one interfering link are automatically created and initialised with somedefault parameters. Finally, when saving (3) your workspace you will store the file with a .sws extension(SEAMCATWorkSpace).Figure 12: Illustration of how to create or open a workspace and its associated file name.When saving a SEAMCAT workspace, the users is prompted with 3 choices as shown in Figure 13.1. All files: Allow the user to see all files in the current folder and type any name desired.2. Default SEAMCAT Workspace: Save the current workspace as the SEAMCAT default workspace. The defaultworkspace file type has a different file ending and if placed in the right folder will be used as the template forall new workspaces. This works like the "normal.dot" file in MS Word.3. SEAMCAT Workspace Files (Recommended): Traditional XML based workspace files.Figure 13: Saving options in SEAMCAT27