Menu

Generally, two items are available in the menu: FILE and PROJECT.

Note

When the project explorer is empty, only the menu item File is visible.

File

Items in the File menu allow to start, load and save hybrid modeling projects.

Figure 3. Items of the File menu.

Table 2. File menu items

Icon	Action	Description
	New	Adds a new project to the project explorer.
	Open	Adds an existing project to the project explorer.
	Save	Saves the current selected project in the project explorer.
	Save As	Saves the current selected project in the project explorer as a new copy.

Important

When Save As is selected, a new copy becomes the current working one. This can be noticed as the project name is also modified.

Tip

When the selected project has never been saved before (is a new project) Save will perform the same way as Save As. Contrary, assuming the project name is CoolProject,

• The project will be temporary renamed to CoolProjectXXXXX; where XXXXX are numbers. This indicates that the last saved version of your project is safe and an attempt to save your unsaved modifications is being carried out by creating a temporary backup named CoolProjectXXXXX.

• The saving procedure can finalize as,

  • Succeed. Everything worked out, the old saved version CoolProject is deleted and the temporal backup CoolProjectXXXXX containing all new modifications is renamed to CoolProject. Therefore, you won’t see any visual change in your directory, but CoolProject will now contain all modifications.

  • Fail. A dialog window will pop up offering two options:

    • Keep saving (not recommended). In this case the user is accepting to proceed with the saving no matter what and overwrite CoolProject with CoolProjectXXXXX resulting in a possibly corrupt project.

    • Cancel (recommended). In this case, the user cancels saving. The saved version of CoolProject remains the same as before saving and the current version with unsaved modifications is still intact within the Toolbox application so that the user can explore other options such as Save As.

Due to this safety backup operation, the used disk space will be twice the size of the saved version of CoolProject plus the size of new unsaved modifications during the saving procedure. Once saving is completed, the total size gets reduced to once the previously saved version of CoolProject plus the size of new unsaved modifications.

Project

Table 3. Project menu items

Icon	Action	Description
	Add data	Imports data by creating and adding new datasets to the selected project.
	Add Hybrid model	Creates a new hybrid model and adds it to the selected project.

Tip

In the Toolbox’s main bar the current total amount of memory (RAM) being used by the running instance is shown.