Loading MODFLOW-96 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-96 from the
drop-list box, and then click OK.
- The MODFLOW-96 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.
- Specify the layer elevation file in the
second text box by using the corresponding Browse button.
- If pathlines have been calculated by MODPATH, the
pathline file may be optionally entered into the third 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.
- 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 initial display will be a
bounding box viewed from overhead (from +z axis toward -z direction) at the selected
time in Step 9 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 vectors 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.