Animating Profiles

Animate a profile by:

Click Compute to calculate flows.
Click View > Profiles to open the Profiles manager.
In the Profiles manager, select the profile you want to see and click the Profile button to open the profile in Profile Viewer.
If the Scenario Animation dialog box is not open, select View > Scenario Animation to open it.
If needed, click the Scenario Animation Option button to setup the animation.
In the Scenario Animation dialog box, move the Time slider or click one of the animation buttons and watch the profile change over time in the Profile Viewer. As needed, click the Pause button in the Scenario Animation dialog box, to study the profile at a given time.

Time Browser Dialog Box

The Time Browser dialog box allows you to change the currently displayed time step and to animate the main drawing pane.

The dialog box contains the following controls:


Time Display	Shows the current time step that is displayed in the drawing pane.
Time Slider	Lets you manually move the slider representing the currently displayed time step along the bar, which represents the full length of time that the scenario encompasses.
Go to Start	Sets the currently displayed time step to the beginning of the simulation.
Play Backward	Sets the currently displayed time step from the end to the beginning.
Step Backward	Returns the currently displayed time step to the previous time step.
Pause/Stop	Stops the animation. Restarts it again with another click.
Step	Advances the currently displayed time step to the following time step.
Play	Advances the currently displayed time step from beginning to end.
Got to End	Sets the currently displayed time step to the end of the simulation.
Options	Opens the Time Browser Options dialog box.
Help	Opens Bentley StormCAD online help.
Speed Slider	Lets you control the length of the delay between time steps during animations.
Increment	Allows you to set the increment between steps.