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Darwin Calibrator Inactive Elements

I'm fairly new to the software and have been going through the on demand courses.  I have a decent understanding of how Darwin Calibrator works but I'm struggling with one thing.


I have numerous inactive pipes in my model.  Typically these are either abandoned pipes and/or future pipes.  When I'm trying to run either a manual or automated calibration, Darwin seems to try and include these in the calibration and fails due to "Deleted or Inactive roughness group pipe"  This is because the roughness of the inactive pipe is part of the group I'm trying to have Darwin modify.

Is there an easy way to get Darwin to ignore these elements when trying to calibrate the model?

Thanks

Travis

  • The Floating Select Toolbar also has a predefined query for Inactive Elements (Under "Input").  So:

    1. Toggle the Remove/Minus Operation to be On by pressing the toolbar button

    2. Dropdown the "Queries" list in the Toolbar

    3. Expand "Input" and select "Inactive Elements"

    This removes Inactive elements from the selection.

    Note that as HMIActiveTopologyIsActive is a boolean (true/false) field, you can optionally just write queries like this for the "Where" clause:

    a)  "HMIActiveTopologyIsActive"  (ie. Where this field evaluates to TRUE. Don't need to put in the extra "= True", because the expression TRUE = TRUE always IS TRUE ;-) )

    b)  "NOT HMIActiveTopologyIsActive"  (ie. Where the field is Not TRUE.  To filter elements that are not Active)



  • Thanks,  I actually figured it out about 15 min ago but it wouldn't let me delete the thread or reply to my own post.  I had created a custom query Physical_PipeMaterial = 'Ductile Iron' AND HMIActiveTopologyIsActive = True.

  • One way to remove the inactive elements is:

    1.  Edit the group by clicking on the ellipsis in the Element ID field.

    2.  Click on Select from drawing.

    3.  In the floating toolbar, click on the "remove" icon (check mark with minus sign).

    4.  Using the same floating toolbar, click on Queries and create a custom query.  From the fields column select "Is Active?" (double-click), then select the "=".  Click on the refresh symbol to the left of Unique Values, then double-click on False.  Click on the "Go" icon or click on Validate on OK and select OK.

    Terry Foster
    Technical Support
    Hydraulics and Hydrology product line
    Bentley Systems, Inc.