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Is there way to remove gridlines and show tick-marks instead? (trying to conform to SDR author guidelines...)

Best,
Max

Thank you for trying to help Tom. However, I cannot find an export option in the view menu. Is it possible that this is a feature that is not available in PLE? With respect to the bounding box issue: I am familiar with this issue from manual copy-paste in the old GUI: the problem seems to be that th...

When copy-pasting a sketch in the old GUI on a Mac (e.g. to the Preview.app) then one gets vector graphics output, which means there is infinite zoom. (With the exception of the clouds at the end of flows which are always pixel-graphics) However, when performing the same action with the new GUI one ...

When using the old GUI one can zoom seamlessly using shift+ctrl+click-drag up or down depending on whether you want to zoom in or out. This feature is extremely useful for me. And it stops working as soon as I switch to the new GUI. Is there any other way to zoom easily in the new GUI? Pinch-zoom on...

Correction: switching to new gui now works with Vensim PLE. I'm not getting the error message any more either. Not sure why, maybe because I had opened the file with another vensim version in between? My hunch is that this is because several vensim versions may be using the same settings file (very ...

Thanks for the advice, but how? As I have written I can't switch to the new GUI: When I try to, I get the indicated error message.

I am evaluating PLE 9.3.5 Mac. I am running MacOS 10.14.6.
When trying to switch to the new GUI I get an error report (attached).

Best regards,
Max

I have attached a zip file that contains a tiny model with only a table function as well as a command script and the batch file that I use to run the command file. If I run it, I do get two vdfx files, but they are identical although they should not be as you see if you look into the script. Note: I...

Is there another way besides {curly brackets} in command file syntax to write comments (stuff that is ignored during execution)? In .cin-files a colon at the start of the line can be used. Even cooler in cin-files ":MSG " creates a message during execution. I guess such messages are not po...

I should add that the variable for some subscripts has a table function for others equations or even constants. I currently use vensim 9.2.4.

For example:
SIMULATE>RUNNAME|MKS_1232_REF2020_OHend_EISREF2021_butChargerKSSP_LogitBetasBEVsameDieselRel_CNGLNGmu9_MarginBEVlowfromstart
SIMULATE>SETVAL|D_VFT_hdv_technology_costs_by_componentxGVWxTruckTech_Euro2020[szm,BEVTruck,HDVmargin]((1995,17200),(2035,17200))
MENU>RUN|o

Toms hint with the READCIN/ADDCIN was helpful. I know I had originally posted this a long while ago, I am still struggling to implement SETVAL with a table function. This example does not work: SIMULATE>SETVAL|variable_name[C_1200kw]((1995,0),(2018,0),(2019,0),(2020,0),(2021,0),(2022,0),(2023,150),(...

Sure: This could be most helpful if a variable name in the model has changed so the savelist needs an update. The heading then could make it easier to find the new variable. In addition, our model is big and the variable names are sometimes not self-explanatory. People working on it have differing s...

The help file for MENU>VDF2XLSX just refers to MENU>VDF2Tab. Hence it is not clear if the excel version of the command has additional possibilities compared to the tab version. Excel-files can have multiple sheets. When using command scripts for exporting data to xlsx from several runs, it would be ...

Does not seem to work with "!", I get the following error:
WARNING: Error exporting : '! comment-text' is specified in savelist for export, but it is not in the dataset (simulationrunname.vdfx). Cannot export..

Is there a way to insert a line in a savelist (.list file) that is not evaluated when the savelist is used (for export, simulation etc.)? I have tried a preceeding colon ":" (as in .cin-files) or an enclosing curly brackets "{...}". The export works, but I still get error message...

Is there another place where to enter feature requests? DelayNL would be a feature request for a built-in function of a higher-order delay with leakage. It could e.g. differ from a normal DelayN in the way taht a conveyor differs from DelayFixed.

Would be great if you could share that Tom. I hadn't thought of a macro yet, yours may inspire me.

Conveyor is a delay function with leakage Delay N is a delay function with dispersion/variance, i.e. a pulse input of one DT gives a curved output, which is more dispersed than the input. As far as I know, there is no built-in delay function that allows for both. Is there a smart way of combining th...

Workaround so far: export vdfx to xls from 9.2.1 then import using 6.4 as vdf.

I am working with Vensim 9.2.1, some folks in the team work with vensim 6.4 (or even older). Therefore they need as input to data vars vdf files. However my vensim version produces vdfx files.

Great, thanks!

I have read in the release notes of 9.2:
Default IO Object configuration
You can now change the default IO object created using the IO object tool. Right click on the button to change this.
However, when I right click the button, there is no way to do this (see attached screenshot).

Seems to be resolved in 9.2.1. Thanks a lot!

Ok, here's a clue that could help us figure out what the problem is: The problem disappears when I turn off "show_underbar" in the settings! So it is likely somthing related to the underbar feature. Both graph tool and table tool work in this case. The problem is that we can't do that bec...