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Getting Started

 

1 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 specific files and directories.
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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.

5 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 menu.
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