Version 8 offers a number of features that enhance your ability to build, communicate, and learn.
Precise Navigation
Control
Precisely navigate to background graphics by setting a navigation button
to align the top left corner of the screen with the top left corner of
a graphics object. When setting navigation from a message poster (or any
other camera navigation), depress the control (command on Macintosh) key
and click within a graphics object.
Undo
Replace that object or model building block you accidentally deleted.
Graphical
Input Devices Control Array Elements
Graphical Input Devices can now control graphical functions in the elements
of an array.
Compatibility
Update for Windows XP
Version 8 supports Windows XP.
Nudge
Position objects more easily. Use the arrow keys to move a highlighted
object or building block any direction in one pixel increments. Hold the
shift key down to nudge in 10 pixel increments.
Highlight
Story Break
Draw attention to important feedback loops, structural relationships, and
model elements by creating a storytelling presentation that highlights
selected building blocks in a timed sequence.
Graph Pad Enhancements
• To facilitate more effective presentations, graph fonts automatically scale to the graph size.
• Format the X-axis scale by double-clicking the x-axis label.
• Hide the Y-axis scale with the graph pad dialog
Y Scale on Tool Tip Mini-graphs
See more information in analyze mode. Tool-tip graphs for model building
blocks now show the Y-axis scale.
Hide Detail
Option for Tables
Reduce clutter on the table pad by hiding icons such as the lock and printer.
Access to
Building Blocks in the Commercial Runtime Version
Test (and therefore improve) users’ understanding by allowing them to modify
a map in the Commercial Runtime software.
Turn Sectors
On/ Off with a Button
You now have more control over applications that rely on various scenarios,
exercises, or assumptions. Turn sectors on and off with a navigation button
to determine when model sectors representing assumptions will affect the
simulation.
Type into
Textboxes During a Simulation Pause
Test and enhance understanding by allowing users to log their analyses
during a simulation pause, when dynamics are fresh in their minds.
Print Export
Create a button that prints tables, graphs, textboxes, and model sectors.
Security
Enhancements
Allow users to customize graphs, tables, and loop pads in the Commercial
Runtime software.
Annotate
Graph Curves
Highlight events, shifts in feedback loop dominance, or other important
dynamics by marking, labeling, and annotating points on a graph curve.