Becoming Familiar with using PSCAD V5
The following resources may assist new users to become familiar with PSCAD V5:
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Information on selecting and setting up your FORTRAN compiler is available in this article.
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The Knowledge Base contains videos, user guides, examples, tutorials, webinars, and manuals.
- The video posted to the webinar Introduction to Electromagnetic Transients includes instructions for modeling a very basic circuit in PSCAD V5 (scroll the video to 54:20).
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Examples and tutorial projects to load and run are available to be loaded into the PSCAD application:
- For the Professional and Educational Editions: C:\Users\Public\Documents\PSCAD\5.0\Examples
- For the Free Edition: C:\Users\Public\Documents\PSCAD\Free\Examples x64
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The Application Help system provides information on PSCAD tools and features. This may be invoked online, or within PSCAD as follows:
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Press the F1 key with your cursor on the canvas, or select File | Help | Table of Contents as shown below:
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Specific help topics in the Application Help will display if selected from canvas menus. For example, right-click on a component, and select "Help" from the canvas menu:
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Three tutorials for designing PSCAD cases are available in the Help system:
