Interface - Graphics

Choose [Graphic|Plot Input Data] from the menu bar to draw the input vertical curve and/or inlet locations on the screen.

Choose [Graphic|Plot Results] to draw the vertical curve and the design inlet location, and to calculate the discharge and spread at any location within the selected design limits.

When graphing either the input file or the design/analysis results, the basic graph will consist of a profile drawing with inlet locations as appropriate. The program will prompt the user for the horizontal and vertical scale. These scales are used to calculate the proper vertical exaggeration of the profile. If the user leaves the scale as the default calculated by the program, the program will use the maximum vertical exaggeration to fill up the screen. An arrow shaped mouse pointer will be depicted on the screen. Pointing the arrow to the desired location and pressing the left mouse button will activate the program to indicate the station, elevation, profile slope and cross slope at that point. For the case of graphing the results of the design process, the discharge and the spread at that point also will be shown.

Use the [Graphic|Plot Results] to check the design to see whether there is any station that has a spread exceeding the design spread and to verify the accuracy of the input data. A spread exceeding the design spread is possible if there are two solutions possible for the specified spread between the previous inlet location and the low point.