Extraction of Particle Path Lines

It is too cumbersome to extract and plot the path lines for all of the thousands of particles that can be generated during a PT simulation. The PT Path line Extraction utility allows you to extract the path lines for specific particles if you have saved the intermediate locations in the Storing of Results (V1 p. 335) dialogue.

To extract a particle path line you need a Particle ID. These can only be found after the simulation by evaluating the PT output. For example, you can find the particle ID by extracting the particle start locations that end in a specific well and then finding the ID numbers of the particles that you want in the shape file that was created.

In the Results tab, the PT Pathline Extraction (V1 p. 375) utility is available to make this extraction.

Running from a batch file

The path line output retrieval program can be run from a command line. To execute the program, open a command line and type:

PtBinRetrieval.exe file_name.she extraction_num

The extraction_num is the item number in the table of extraction items in the PT Pathline Extraction (V1 p. 375) dialogue. The extraction will proceed silently - that is without any messages. To run the extraction with the mes­sages, you need to use

MZLaunch file_name.she -e PtBinRetrieval.exe

which will start the MZLaunch utility. Particle IDs can be found by using the PT Output Retrieval utility.