Automatically Export GoldSim Plots as Image Files

Posted by Jason Lillywhite

Over the last few years, some users have asked us for a feature that automatically exports images of plots in a GoldSim model. This is useful if you want to quickly update many plots used for a report but it is currently not a feature supported by GoldSim. Luckily, there is a fairly straightforward workaround that involves the help of a macro enabled Excel spreadsheet. In this post, I will walk through the steps to build this functionality using a simple example model. Using the simple example that I've created, you just run the model and images of all the plots of exported results are saved immediately.

Customizing GoldSim Element Icons

Posted by Ryan Roper

One of the strengths of GoldSim is that it offers several types of generic elements from which models can be constructed to represent almost any type of physical system. Because of the flexibility in how individual element types can be used as building blocks for complex systems, their default names and icons are generic. Element labels can be changed and element descriptions can be added to better indicate what an element represents. Another way to further customize an element to indicate what it represents is by changing the default element icon to a custom icon.

As an example, the default icon for a Container element is a simple box. But what if that Container represents the operations of a pump or the inventory in a warehouse? You may want to change the icon to a custom one that represents this function or purpose. In this post, we'll show you how to do this and we'll point you to an icon library on our website that already has a number of icons you might like to use.