Visual OTTHYMOTM v2.3 Users Guide July 2009

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................5 Welcome ............................................................................................................................. 5

Whats new ......................................................................................................................... 6

Overview of Program Capabilities...................................................................................... 7 User Interface.................................................................................................................8

Visual OTTHYMO Help System and Documentation ....................................................... 8 Program Help File..........................................................................................................9 Help Search....................................................................................................................9 Context-Sensitive Help (F1) ........................................................................................10

About the Users Guide .................................................................................................... 10

Customer Support ............................................................................................................. 11

Software License Agreement............................................................................................ 12

Conditions of Sale............................................................................................................. 14

CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING VISUAL OTTHYMO .............................................................15 Hardware and Software Requirements ............................................................................. 15

Installation Procedure ....................................................................................................... 15

Password and Registration System ................................................................................... 16

Uninstall Procedure........................................................................................................... 16

CHAPTER 3 WORKING WITH VISUAL OTTHYMO-AN OVERVIEW.......................18 Running Visual OTTHYMO ............................................................................................ 18

Interface Layout and Controls .......................................................................................... 18 Toolbox........................................................................................................................20 Toolbar.........................................................................................................................21

Working with Projects ...................................................................................................... 22

Closing Scenarios and Projects......................................................................................... 24

Steps in Developing a Model............................................................................................ 24

CHAPTER 4 - CREATING A MODEL FROM SCRATCH ..................................................26 Project Set-up.................................................................................................................... 26

Hydrologic Objects ........................................................................................................... 27 Generate Hydrograph Objects......................................................................................28 Route Hydrograph Objects ..........................................................................................28 Modify Hydrograph Objects ........................................................................................28 Manual Input Hydrograph Objects ..............................................................................28 Placing Objects on the Canvas.....................................................................................28

Linking Hydrologic Objects ........................................................................................29 Raingauge Setup ..........................................................................................................31 Storm Type...................................................................................................................32 Simulation Order..........................................................................................................34

Running a Simulation ....................................................................................................... 35

CHAPTER 5 CREATING A MODEL BY IMPORTING DATA FILES...........................37 Previous Versions of OTTHYMO Supported................................................................... 37

Importing Visual OTTHYMO v2.3/Visual OTTHYMO v2.0 Data Files ........................ 37

Importing Visual OTTHYMO 1.0.x Data Files................................................................ 38

Importing OTTHYMO-89/INTERHYMO Data Files...................................................... 39

Importing an OTTHYMO-83 Data File............................................................................ 42

Import Log File ................................................................................................................. 44

CHAPTER 6 WORKING WITH OUTPUT ..........................................................................45 Overview of Output Features............................................................................................ 45

Summary Data by Object.................................................................................................. 46

Summary Hydrograph Data .............................................................................................. 47

Hydrograph Plots .............................................................................................................. 49 Graph Options..............................................................................................................50 Exporting Graphs .........................................................................................................52

Cross Scenario Hydrograph Plots ..................................................................................... 54 Graph Options..............................................................................................................55 Exporting Graphs .........................................................................................................56

Summary and Detailed Output Files................................................................................. 58 Printing Output Files....................................................................................................60

Reviewing Output ............................................................................................................. 61

Outputting the Model Schematic ...................................................................................... 61

CHAPTER 7 VO2 TOOLS AND FEATURE OPERATION ...............................................62 Storm Settings................................................................................................................... 62

Chicago Storm .............................................................................................................62 Mass Storm ..................................................................................................................63 Read Storm...................................................................................................................64 Modify Storm...............................................................................................................65

Creating Object Labels ..................................................................................................... 67

Options Form .................................................................................................................... 68

Project Settings ................................................................................................................. 69

Scenario Settings............................................................................................................... 70

Copying a Scenario ........................................................................................................... 72 Select Objects Method .................................................................................................72 Import Method .............................................................................................................73

Find NHYD Command ..................................................................................................... 74

Renumber Hydrologic Objects ......................................................................................... 75

Graph Objects in VO2 ...................................................................................................... 75 Graph Options..............................................................................................................75 Exporting Graphs .........................................................................................................77

Cut/Copy/Paste Operations........................................................................................