When you understand the concepts of across and through, including orientation, constructing an iconic diagram is easy:
1. | Create an ideal physical model. |
2. | Select the components that represent the various parts of the ideal physical model and drag and drop them to the 20-sim editor. Iconic Diagram components can be found in the model library. Some standard components are shown in the tables of this tutorial. |
3. | Connect the components according to the ideal physical model. |
4. | Compile the model and run a simulation. For a good interpretation of the plots, you must know that across variables are always defined with respect to a global reference and through variables are always defined with respect to the components. |