Creating model

Select Simulant  tab. After selecting Simulant tab only buttons New model and Info are available at beginning.

• Click New model button and you will be ask to insert name of the model. Insert the name and press Ok

Several new buttons for creating and running simulation model appear on the Simulant tab. These buttons are available only when worksheet containing the model is active. In each Excel workbook there can be only one simulation model. In Model creation group there are following buttons.

• Normal:  Switches application to mode, where no action occurs, when you click on any cell in model worksheet. When you click on any model object in this mode, form for setting properties of the object opens.
• Activity:  Switches application to mode, where object representing activity is inserted to the model, when you click on any cell.
• Queue:  Switches application to mode, where object representing queue is inserted to the model, when you click on any cell.
• Entry:  Switches application to mode, where object representing entry point  is inserted to the model, when you click on any cell.
• End:  Switches application to mode, where object representing end point inserted to the model, when you click on any cell.
• Resources:  Switches application to mode, where object representing resource inserted to the model, when you click on any cell.
• Connectors:  Switches application to mode for connecting model elements. First object you click is set as start point of connector and clicking on other object will create connector from the start point to the second object.
• Move:  Switches application to mode for moving objects. Click on any model element to select object to move and then  Click on any place in the model worksheet to move the object.
• Remove: Switches application to mode, where clicking on any model element removes the element. Clicking on connector in this mode removes the connector. Removing any element removes also all connectors connecting the element with other elements.
• Entities: Opens form for defining new types of entities.

Forms for setting properties of any object is opened by clicking on the object, when application is in any other mode than Connectors, Move or Remove. If the properties of object are not set by user, default setting is used.