Loading MODFLOW-2000 and MODFLOW-2005 Data
- Click the File menu and select New.
- If changes to the previous MV document have not been saved, a
dialog box is displayed
that allows you to click: Yes to save changes, or No
to discard changes.
- The Model Selection dialog box is displayed. Select MODFLOW-2000/2005
from the
drop-list box, and then click OK.
- The MODFLOW-2000/2005 Data File dialog box is displayed.
Specify the "name" file in the first text box by clicking the
corresponding Browse button and navigating to the
file.
- If pathlines have been calculated by MODPATH, the pathline
file may be optionally entered into the second text box by using
the corresponding Browse button. Note that the pathline
file must be in the same folder as the "name" file. If pathlines
were not calculated, leave
the text box blank. Check the checkbox for backwards particle
tracking if backwards particle tracking was used. Some pathline
files indicate whether forwards or backwards particle tracking
was used. For those files, the direction specified in the file
will be used.
- If you wish to display data from an external
file, specify the name of the external
file. The external
file must be in the same folder as the "name" file. If an
external file is not
used, leave the text box blank.
- If the model has generated binary (unformatted) output data,
the specify
the type of binary data from
the drop-list box.
If no binary data are generated, ignore this step.
- Click OK.
- The Data Selection dialog box is displayed. From the drop-list
boxes, select the time and data type for the initial display.
(Note that the numbers in
parentheses indicate the stress period and time step.) Then
click OK.
After the model data are loaded, the opening display will be a
bounding box viewed from overhead (from +z axis toward -z
direction) at the selecte time in Step 8 above.
Scalar values (for example, heads, drawdown, etc.) at the
selected time are used to set the color
bar as follows:
- Red represents the maximum scalar value.
- Blue represents the minimum scalar value.
- However, if scalar values are uniform over the grid, then red
represents s+1, and blue represents s-1, where s is the uniform
scalar value.
If cell-by-cell flow data are available, then the specific
discharge vectors
are scaled so that, for the selected time, the length of the
vector with the highest magnitude is approximately one-tenth the
diagonal distance across the bounding box.