Profiles

About Profiles

A Profile displays vector data, such as a temperature profile in a distillation column as a function of stage number. You can display multiple profile curves on the same Profile. You can modify the look and feel of a Profile and your changes are automatically saved and visible on the Profile.

By default, a Profile plots each data point for a profile curve as a function of the index value for the corresponding vector element. However, you can supply an x-axis variable to create a scatter plot of the data points as a function of that variable.

Concepts

• When you create a new Profile in the simulation, it appears both on the Canvas and in the Simulation Manager.

• A Profile contains and displays profile curves.

• A profile curve is a combination of scalar and array variables used in the simulation.

• The Profile automatically updates when you make any changes to the profile curves or the configuration.

• You can change a profile curve from a set of indexed values to a scatter plot by specifying an x-axis variable.

• You can delete a Profile from the Canvas without deleting it from the Simulation Manager.

• You can use the Simulation Manger to create multiple instances of the same Profile on the Canvas.

Actions

• Create a new Profile by dragging one from the Tools Library onto the Canvas.

• Add another instance of an existing Profile to the Canvas by using the Simulation Manager.

• Add profile curves to the Profile.

• Add variables to a profile curve

• Configure the following for each profile curve:

  • Label

  • Color

  • Y-axis

  • Line style

  • Marker style

  • X-axis

• Configure a Profile's appearance, such as the grid and the location of the legend.

• Export the Profile data to a Microsoft Excel report.