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Assuming BUildSim has been successfully
installed on to your hard-drive,
you are now ready to launch the program. To start BuildSim,
double-click the BuildSim Application Icon. The BuildSim Project
Window will appear. The very first time this occurs this
may take a couple of seconds while BuildSim setups various applicaiton
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You'll see a column of icons along the left side of the Project
Window. These icons open Build Block
Palettes for various types of BuildBlocks.
The last icon in the column of icons along the left side
of the window, slightly setoff from the contiguous set of
icons, is the Plot Window icon.
Pushing it opens the Plot Window.
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- Click the Input Signals icon.
Drag a Sinusoidal Signal Block
to the Project Window.
- Drag a UniformNoise Block
to the Project Window.
- Click the S-Plane Icon. Drag a LowPass
Filter Block to the Project Window.
- Drag a Summing Junction to the Project Window.
- Click the Data Collection Icon.
- Drag a SimHistory Block to the Project Window.
- Click the Sinusoid Block in the Project Window. Shift-Click
the SumNode Block.
- A Connection will appear between the Sinusoid and the
SumNode. That's how connections are made.
- Now, connect the UniformNoise Block to the SumNode. Connect
the SumNode to the LowPass Block.
- Connect each of the blocks to the SimHistory block. The
Project should look like
this.
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To run a simulation of this system, select "Setup" in the Simulation menu. That will open the Simulation
Control Window.
Click the Run button. BuildSim will then run a simulation
of the example project. You have now run a simple simulation!
The data for the simulation was collected by the SimHistory
block. To "see" the data, you can click the Plot Window Icon
in the Project Window and the Plot Window will open.
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To create a plot of the Sinusoid
data versus time - click "time" in the X Axis list and "Sinusoid.1"
in the Y Axis list. Then , click "Plot" in the Commands pop-up
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