The General options menu contains the following:

Model

•Show alternative station string in model window

The station designation standard has converged to a minimum of a 3-digit station designation, the use of floating point (point/decimal seperated) nimbers is deprecated. Enabling this option allows to modeler to show the alternative station designation from the output options.

Input

•Transient Input Data

Press the buttons to (de-)activate all transient input

•Deterioration
Press the buttons to (de-)activate all deterioration input.
Press the "Clear value in all components" button to clear all deterioration input data (resets deterioration value of modifiers to zero)

Outnput

•Confirm Grid Row Delete

If this check box is selected, the program will ask for confirmation before a row is deleted in a data specification grid (e.g. a transient input grid).

•Confirm Table Row Delete

If this check box is selected, the program will ask for confirmation before a row is deleted in an output table.

•If changed, show save dialog for

•Steady State Output Table

•Transient Output Table

•Report editor

Units

Global model unit system selection for the selected case or configuration in the project.

•SI

•Imperial

Note that the unit system settings in terms of formats, scale factors and unit strings can be user adapted for the predefined parameter types in the current case or configuration Output options.

The Unit system can also be set per component using the Component unit system setting; see the Component unit system for more information on the unit system.

Initialization

•Design Point Calculations

•After Design Point iteration...

•Reset (change) DP input to DP iteration end result
This option will copy iteration results (after a design calculation) to the DP input fields. Reset (change) Design Point input to Design point iteration result after the DP iteration has been completed. This only applies if DP calculation involves the solving of an equation such as when using the DP equation component or selecting SOT input in the combustor or Design Effectiveness input in the recuperator component.

•Confirm DP input reset
Optional confirmation for enabled Reset (change) DP input to DP iteration end result. Confirm reset of the Design point (DP) input to DP iteration Reset DP input to DP results with an Ok/Cancel dialog box.

•Automatically initialize for OD calculation
Finish Design point (DP) iteration with initialization of OD equations (set OD states, errors and map scaling).

•Calculate map scaling factors in Design Point cases

For Design (DP) cases, OD map scaling factors do not need to be calculated, only in OD cases during the pre-OD initialization DP calculation.

However, you can check this option if you want to enforce the calculation of the scaling factors for example to assess the map scaling factors in

a specific design point.

•Off-design calculations

•Confirm DP calculation before OD calculation
Confirm whether to do a design point (DP) calculation prior to an off-design calculation if no DP has been calculated yet.

•Auto reset OD input to DP after completion of DP case calculation
All off-design input will be reset to design point input at design point calculations run from Design or Design Series case types. This option is beneficial if a large number of transient calculations or steady state parameter sweeps have to be performed with an initial operating point at or near the design point either in the same case changing case type, or in a child case of the DP parent.

•Miscellaneous

•Reinitialize model on case type change
Reinitialize model when changing the case type in the project tree. Disabling this options allows simulations starting at model states left by other simulation modes such as a transient following a steady-state calculation for example.

•Warn for unlinked components
Warns for unlinked components after loading case or config model when checked.

•Warn for deprecated components
Warns for deprecated components after loading component input data when checked.

Case Management

•Set controlled parameters back to original after simulation run
Maintain all original model input values after simulations. Without this option, the model input values stay as last set by case control component.

•Warn on loosing embedded map
On loosing an embedded map caused by user interaction a warning will be displayed, cancel to quit loosing the map.