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<h1>OVERVIEW OF THE ISIGHT MODEL EXAMPLES SET</h1>
<h2>INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO RUN THE EXAMPLES</h2>

<h3>OVERVIEW:</h3>
<p>
This directory contains a set of Isight example model files,
together with associated simulation codes and data files
needed to run the examples.  The examples have been built
to illustrate a variety of Isight applications,
components, and features, and to show how to combine them in
useful ways.  These examples have been documented in multiple ways:
<ul>
	<li>Each 'Models' subdirectory contains an html description of each
		example in that subdirectory.  This description includes a link to
		download the model, a list of illustrated components, a list of other
		illustrated features, and links for simcodes and support files
		needed to execute the model.
	<li>Workflow annotation has been used in appropriate cases
		to briefly explain what each component does (for some models,
		annotations are hidden to reduce clutter in the workflow).
	<li>Where necessary, more complete explanations are stored in the 'Description'
		properties of the components; each root component describes
		the example as a whole, while each child component explains
		the purpose and function of that component in that example.
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<h3>SUBDIRECTORIES:</h3>

		<dl><dt>Applications
		<dd>
			This subdirectory contains models that show the usage of multiple
			components to form complete applications.
		</dl>

		<dl><dt>Approximations
		<dd>
			This subdirectory contains models that demonstrate the use of
			approximation techniques.
		</dl>

		<dl><dt>Components
		<dd>
			This subdirectory contains a directory for many of the Engineous core
			components, with models that demonstrate the configuration and use of the
			components.
		</dl>

		<dl><dt>Features
		<dd>
			This subdirectory contains models that demonstrate specific
			features of Isight.
		</dl>

		<dl><dt>Post Processing
		<dd>
			This subdirectory contains examples of results post-processing and
			visualization tools and results.
		</dl>

		<dl><dt>Simcodes
		<dd>
		   Several examples include one or more 'simcode' components.
		   These examples illustrate the ability of Isight
		   to execute external programs and manage their input and
		   output files.  This subdirectory contains all external
		   programs used by the examples.
			<p><br>
		   The 'simcodes/src' subdirectory contains the source codes
		   (in Fortran, C, etc) for these programs.  They are
		   supplied primarily as documentation.  Beneath the 'simcodes'
		   subdirectory is a 'bin' directory, which in turn contains
		   a subdirectory named for each platform for which Isight
		   is supported.  Each sub-subdirectory contains the actual
		   executables for these programs, for that platform.
		   <p><br>
		   The directory containing the simcode executables must be in the %PATH%.
		   When an Isight example model is loaded into the Design Gateway
		   from the installed examples directory, the path to the executables is
		   added to the %PATH% automatically.  If these executables are moved, the
		   new location must be added to the %PATH%.
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<h3>GENERAL EXECUTION NOTES:</h3>
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Several of the examples also have components
which must be adjusted before execution.  For instance, if
an example contains a Mail component, address information
must be entered or the component will not run.  These adjustments
must be done in the Design Gateway before execution.
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