Loading MODFLOW-2000 and MODFLOW-2005 Data

  1. Click the File menu and select New.
  2. 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.
  3. The Model Selection dialog box is displayed. Select MODFLOW-2000/2005 from the drop-list box, and then click OK.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Click OK.
  9. 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:

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.