Purpose: The Bundled Flow allows you to represent, at a high level, the material flows between processes in your model. Like the Process Frame, the Bundled Flow facilitates a "top-down" approach to model construction. It also provides navigational capabilities for finding sector to sector flows on the Map/Model level when "Link High-Level Map to Model" is checked in the Interface Prefs.
Selection and Placement:
Method 1:
Select the Bundled Flow by clicking once on the icon in the Building Block palette.
Move the mouse to the center of a Process Frame.
Click-and-hold. Drag the Bundled Flow into another Process Frame (the Process Frame border will turn gray on contact). Release the click.
Method 2:
When "Link High-Level Map to Model" is checked in the Interface Prefs dialog:
Drag a flow between two Sector Frames on the Map/Model level diagram. A Bundled Flow will be created automatically on the Interface level.
Surface Operations: Figure 4-6 details surface operations which may be performed on a Bundled Flow.
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Figure 4-6 |
Notes:
To bend a flow pipe, depress the shift key as you draw the flow. Each time you depress the shift key you will get a ninety degree bend.
On the Interface level, you can have a maximum of one Bundled Flow from Process Frame A to Process Frame B, and a maximum of one Bundled Flow from Process Frame B to Process Frame A.
This means that the software will enforce a one-to-one correspondence between sector-to-sector flows, and process-to-process Bundled Flows when "Link High-Level Map to Model" is checked in the Interface Prefs.
Dialog Operations: When you open a Bundled Flow, you'll enter its associated dialog. As shown in Figure 4-7, the Bundled Flow lists sector-to-sector flows on the Map/Model level, and provides a mechanism for navigating to those flows.
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Figure 4-7 |