Getting Started

2 • GETTING STARTED
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What is a model thumbnail?
The Navigate panel on the Project Bar provides a model navigation tree for maneuvering
through the different named views and hierarchical levels defined in the model. Included
as part of the Navigate panel is a model thumbnail that helps users orient and change the
current view within the active drawing window.
The thumbnail displays the world space of the current drawing window. A colored,
translucent rectangle represents the current view's boundaries. Dragging the rectangle in
the thumbnail moves the drawing window's current view left, right, up, or down; however,
the rectangle may not be dragged outside the boundaries of the world space.
You may also re-center the rectangle, and thus the world space, or change the level of
zoom. For details on model thumbnail, see the Navigate panel topic in online help.
Rerun the simulation
Now that we’ve made our animation more interesting and valuable, let’s run the
simulation again. Because we did not change any of the process parameters (that is,
data in the modules), the simulation will provide the same results.
Click Run or press the F5 key to start the simulation. As the simulation progresses,
you’ll notice the security officer’s picture changes from idle to busy (engaging with a
passenger) and back again, as passenger entities move through the Check for Proper
Identification process.
The plot shows some significant peaks in the number of passengers who are in line
with the security officer, caused by the combination of the variation in the time
between arrivals of passengers (defined in the Create module) and the time to check
for proper identification (Process module).
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