Limiting Goal Seek & Control Variables to a Specified Range
Applicable to: Arrow GSC Add-on Module, Fathom GSC Add-on Module When searching for a variable value that will yield a specified goal, GSC will investigate all possible variable values. There are some...
View ArticleThe Quickest Way to Learn AFT Products
After you receive your AFT software, you will probably wonder how to learn the software quickly so you can begin using it. AFT provides a very handy Quick Start Guide for each software product in...
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How to Fill as a Quadratic
Filters and screens impose a pressure drop that varies with flow rate. The variation is non-linear, but manufacturers will often provide only one data point for pressure loss at the design flow rate....
View ArticlePrinting Input and Output
You can print all of or select portions of your model data window in order to have a hard copy of your input. Likewise you can print all of or select portions of your output window in order to have a...
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Multi-Scenario Output
Viewing the output from multiple scenarios in the same window can be a valuable and time saving tool! You must have output available for each of the scenarios you would like review. One way to do this...
View ArticleExport Input and Output Data to MS Excel
While reference is made to MS Excel, this is applicable in principal to most any spreadsheet. Exporting to Excel has number of potential uses including; facilitating input or output data comparison...
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Sonic Choking: Flow Areas vs. Sonic Areas
AFT Arrow can be used to model various types of choking such as restriction choking, endpoint choking, and expansion choking. A useful parameter in AFT Arrow’s output is the “Sonic Flow Area” and this...
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Automatic Renumbering
All of the pipe numbers in Fathom must be unique. When adding a pipe to a model, the new pipe number will be incremented based on the highest pipe number currently in the model. For example, you may...
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Jumping Specification Windows
In the process of making specification changes to a sequence of pipes or junctions, one may find it easier to jump from one pipe (or junction) to the next without closing the current specifications...
View ArticleGraph Sets
In all of our core products (Fathom, Arrow, Impulse, Mercury, Titan), we offer the ability to save graph sets. This has the potential to save a lot of time when reviewing multiple graphs of different...
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