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The Transient Contour Toolbar is a special toolbar for generating a time-sequenced series of contour images based on the transient stability results. The results of the transient stability must have already been calculated and either stored to RAM or stored to Hard Drive as discussed in the Results Storage. When generating a plot, an attempt will be made to retrieve from the results stored to RAM. If results are not available for a particular plot series in RAM, then results will be retrieved from those values stored to Hard Drive. If they are still not available then a plot will be generated which omits any plot series for which data can not be retrieved.
The Transient Contour Toolbar looks as follows.
This toolbar can be opened in one of two ways
- Click the Show Transient Contour Toolbar option from the Transient Stability Case Info Menu.
- Click the Show Transient Contour Toolbar button at the bottom of the Transient Stability Analysis Dialog.
The various buttons on this table are described from left to right below.
Close
Click this button to hide the Transient Contour Toolbar.
Reset
Click this button to reset the time of the data being contoured back to the start time stored with the results. A contour image is automatically generated at this start time then.
Back
Click this button to move the present time of the data being contoured backward the number of stored time points specified by the Step per Animate option.
Play
Click this to continue moving the contour visualization forward in time with each animation frame determined by the Steps per Animate option
Forward
Click this button to move the present time of the data being contoured forward by the number of stored time points specified by the Step per Animate option.
Pause
Click this button to
Steps per Animate
The entry of this integer value determines how time progresses when clicking the other buttons here.
Present Time
Shows the present time of the data being visualized by the contour
Start and End Time
Show the start and end time of the data available for visualization from the results.
Device Type and Field
Modifying the Device Type and Field in tandem determines which objects are to have values contoured and which field determines the contour value. The devices available will be an overlap between those devices which can by contoured and those devices for which results can be saved in the transient stability tool. This list of available fields will look very similar to the list available on the Plot Designer.
Options
Clicking this button shows the Contour Options Dialog for a special Transient Contour Value field. This value will be populated according to the Device Type and Field options above.