Using a submodel to extract a part of a model

For the model described above, you may want to see how the vegetation part behaves, assuming fixed inputs from the animal and soil sections that affect it. You draw a submodel envelope around the vegetation, open up a separate window for it, then use the File: Save command to save it to a file. You can then start up Simile again, and load just the saved vegetation submodel (which is now a model in its own right). You can now explore how it behaves by itself. This can be very useful for testing and debugging purposes.