The 2DV View button and the icon 
of the main toolbar provides access to the profile/cross section post-processing utility of EFDC_Explorer (Figure 1). If no 2DV view have been created yet, the only option available to the user is New 2DV View button.
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The Profile Definition frame needs to be set first before a profile can be extracted from EFDC. There are three options shown in Figure 2. The user may either select a value of I to extract the active J cells along that I, or select a value of J to extract the active I cells along that J. The third option is to use a "Drape Line", which is a polyline in the same coordinate system as the LXLY data. The I & J's from along the line will be assembled and the profile will be output along that slice. If an I or J extraction is used, the user can u scroll up and down the selected coordinate.
Then the user select which parameters are to be displayed in Define Parameter to Plot frame, first choose the Primary Group, then the necessary Parameter from that group and select Add to Plot. The user may select more than one parameters to plot. Chosen parameters are displayed in Parameters to Plot frame, where the user can also save/delete current 2DV layout, load external 2DV layout or move the layers up and down (affect the order in which layers are drawn by EFDC). The Update button will replace the currently highlighted parameters in Parameters to Plot frame with the currently selected parameters in Define Parameter to Plot frame. The Properties button will open the 2DV View Properties form where the user can configure color ramp, contour, precision, range and other settings (Figure 3). Click OK to plot 2DV view.
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Figure 3. 2DV View Properties form.
An example of the plot is shown in Figure 4. The contents of the current cell can be displayed, as in 2DH View, by LMC on the cell. Many of the operations of this feature are similar to 2DH View.
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Format Data Items: Open the form Data Extraction for 2DV View
Chart Settings: Allow Allows the user to change the font, box line, content of the main/sub title. Allow user to change the format, line length, column number, background color, border style of the legend. Allow the user to change the font, content, position, scaling of the axes.
Marker Settings: Allow Allows the user to set a marker line at any value of the axes. Choose the X or Y axis in Orientation frame and then choose the value of the marker in Value box. Line style, color or shape of symbol can also be customized.
Comments: Allow Allows the user to add comments into the plot. The font, content, color and background color of the comment can also be adjusted here. Check on the Visible check box to enable the comments.
Change Fonts: Allow Allows the user to increase/decrease the font size for all the axes/ legends at once.
Zoom Full Extent: Zoom to the full extent of the data range.
Change View: Tools that assist the user in controlling of the view-port/camera.
Export/Import Data Series: Export the current data of 2DV View so that it can be import as drape file later.
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As with the 2DH View, the user can export images and animations from the plot with Generate Image and Generate Animation.
Generate Image: let the user put name for the image and select folder the user wants to save out the image by clicking Browse button then click OK button to finish, as default the image will be saved in #analysis folder of the active model.
Generate Animations: display the Generate Bitmap/Animation form, by default the animation will be saved in #animations folder of the active model. In the other hand, the user can put name for the animation and folder the user want to save out the image by clicking Browse button. Setting options for the animation file can be applied in this form such as start/stop animation timing, and number of time steps to skip. Finally click OK button to start exporting the file. (see Figure 6).
The results of any of the time dependent results can be output as an animation to an AVI file. If the animation is to be saved to an AVI file, the user is asked for the number of frames per second to be output to the file. This will be application specific, but a number of 4 frames per second generally provides a fairly smooth, but not too fast animation. The user should be aware that these files can get quite large quickly. The frame size of the animation will match the frame of the 2DH View. Press the "Escape" key to stop an animation.
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Figure 6. Export animations.