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Building and Using a Basic Simulation Components list. In the following example, typing the letters wa in the Search field has highlighted the Water component. Figure 5-05: Using the Search box to locate the Water component
The Search field accepts both text and numeric entries. By default, CHEMCAD will search for your entry among all chemical names, chemical formulas, CHEMCAD database IDs, and CAS numbers. If you would prefer not to search this broadly, click the Options button. This brings up a dialog box that enables you to “opt out” of including any of these items in your searches. Figure 5-06: Selecting what to include in component searches
Note: You can add your own custom components to the CHEMCAD component database. For more details about this feature, see Chapter 10 of this manual. Adding a Component
Once you’ve located the component you want in the Available Components list, simply double‐click the component to add it to the Selected Components list for your simulation. You can also select multiple components in the Available Components list and then click the right arrow button, located between the two columns, to add the components to your simulation. To select multiple components, use Windows’ standard selection methods of holding down [SHIFT] to select contiguous items or holding down [CTRL] to select non‐contiguous items. 42 CHEMCAD Version 6 User Guide