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6.5) Vensim Features


In this section, we introduce the basic features of Vensim that you will need to build and simulate a system dynamics model. This guide is not intended to be a comprehensive overview of every feature Vensim offers, merely enough to start producing useful results.

Vensim comes installed with useful documentation that can be found in the main menu under ‘Help’ – ‘Vensim Manual’. (That, by the way, is how we will indicate menu items. Their names are quoted and a hyphen indicates a sub-item. Select by clicking on the final sub-item.)

As well as the Vensim documentation, a very useful tutorial describing most of the features of Vensim can be found here: http://www.public.asu.edu/~kirkwood/sysdyn/VenPLE.pdf