Use the Model Data Window

Besides its usefulness for documentation purposes, the Model Data window is a powerful tool for finding input errors in your model. If you suspected an input error in one of the pipes, the task of looking for the error in each individual pipe input window would be tedious. From the Model Data window, all of the input information is displayed in formatted tables. Here it is much easier to scan down columns of data looking for input errors. In this case, one of the pipe lengths was accidentally entered in miles rather than feet.

Figure 1: From t he Model Data window it is much easier to see that one of the pipes (#102) has length data entered in miles rather than feet. This is not automatically an input error, as xStream accepts pipe input with mixed engineering units. However, more frequently than not the user intends to use consistent units, so this probably is an error.