gPROMS ModelBuilder version 2.3.1

Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction............................................................................................................................ 1
1.1 gPROMS ModelBuilder..................................................................................................................... 2
Chapter 2 - Projects and Entities ............................................................................................................... 3
2.1 gPROMS ModelBuilder environment.................................................................................................. 4
2.1.1 The gPROMS ModelBuilder Project tree ........................................................................................ 4
2.1.2 Projects ..................................................................................................................................... 4
2.1.3 Entity creation and deletion ......................................................................................................... 5
2.1.4 Opening and closing an entity editor............................................................................................. 6
2.2 Entity editors .................................................................................................................................. 7
2.2.1 The entity properties tab ............................................................................................................. 7
2.2.2 The gPROMS language tab .......................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Project organisation ...................................................................................................................... 11
2.3.1 Project properties..................................................................................................................... 11
2.3.2 Entity cross-referencing and hierarchical libraries ........................................................................ 11
2.3.3 Automatic loading of Projects .................................................................................................... 14
2.3.4 Read-only Projects .................................................................................................................... 14
2.3.5 Display of empty groups in Project tree ...................................................................................... 14
2.4 Library projects ............................................................................................................................ 16
2.4.1 Creation of libraries .................................................................................................................. 16
2.4.2 Display of libraries in the project tree ......................................................................................... 16
2.5 Model palette ............................................................................................................................... 17
2.5.1 Displaying the Model palette ...................................................................................................... 17
Chapter 3 - Variable and Connection Type Entities .................................................................................... 19
3.1 Variable Types editor .................................................................................................................... 20
3.2 Connection Types editor................................................................................................................ 21
3.2.1 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 21