Cell Map

The Cell Map Viewing Opt displays the cell as stored in the computer memory. Figure 1 shows an example cell map using the Uniform Grid option. The I and J axes can be labeled, as they are in this example.

Cells can be deactivated or activated using this view. RMC'ing on a cell pops up a menu that allows the user to Edit, Activate, Deactivate, or Set as Show IJ. The user can deactivate cells from several Viewing Opt views. Deactivated cells are still defined and are in memory. The number of active cells does not change until the user saves the project. When the user reloads the project the deactivated cells will be completely removed.

 
Figure 1 ViewPlan: Example Cell Map.

Retaining deactivated cells in memory allows the user to reactivate a cell without losing information, if needed, during the cell editing process. To reactivate a deactivated cell or a originally deactivated cell, RMC on the cell and select activate. If the cell was previously activated it will just change the active cell flag to on. On the other hand, if the cell was not previously activated EFDC_Explorer looks to the immediately adjacent active cells to try to set the appropriate cell dimensions, depth, rotation, etc. Because EFDC_Explorer is using adjacent cells to assign properties, the user should add cells in a manner that has the most active cells adjacent to the cell being activated. The cell properties are displayed to allow the user the opportunity to make adjustments to the cell properties before accepting the activation.

If cells are activated near the edge of the IJ space, EFDC_Explorer adds to the appropriate dimension and shifts the model to reflect the new IJ's.