Darwin Designer to Optimize a Pipe Network

Calculate and Verify the Optimal Solution

After you calculate your solutions, it is important that you look at them and verify they
do what you need.

1. Click Compute. A dialog box opens that displays the progress and certain statis-
tics of the calculation.

2. After the calculation is complete, click Close. (If the calculation did not complete
successfully, you would check the Messages tab.)
Under the Solutions folder you see five solutions numbered 1 through 5 These are
the five top solutions Darwin Designer has calculated. Highlight the Solutions
folder to display a summary of each of the top solutions.

Solutions are stored in order of optimization fitness, with Solution 1 providing a

better calculated solution than Solution 2, which has a better calculated solution
that Solution 3, etc.
3. Export the solutions to your model, so you can review tank levels.

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