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So, I have a stand-alone sub-model that also holds several submodels of its own. I load this into a new submodel window, but it always ends up being TEENY - as in microscopic. If I play around with the new submodel window, then I end up with a grid background that is oversized. I like to keep things neat and pretty, so not having a relevant scaled grid background is disappointing. How can I load this submodel into a new submodel so that I can still read and see the parameters? I will be using influences from the sub-model to other variables in the new model which will be difficult to do if the only way I can see the variables is via opening the submodel window itself. Indeed, the whole point of loading the stand-along submodel into the new model is so that I can work in the visual environment to create the next model. Would it be better just to copy and paste? This makes the stand-along submodel loading seem unusable to me. The other way around this would be if I could resize the entire submodel, including its contents full of other submodels. However, I'm not sure how to do this?
opening submodels
Hi Lora...I'm guessing that your problem is that the submodel you are loading contains a lot of white space. To get rid of this you can select 'View -> Zoom to fit' in the window showing the model (i.e., the one you load it into). After you do this, the contents should more or less fill the submodel boundary.
If they still do not, the problem might be that the aspect ratio of the submodel's contents is very different from that of its enclosing boundary, so perhaps it only occupies a thin strip in the submodel space. You would have to rearrange the model contents to fix this.
If neither of these is the case, perhaps you could attach the model you are talking about so we can have a look and try to find a way to fix it. Recently we saw one example of a model that would not zoom to fit properly because there was a text component containing only whitespace, some way away from the rest of the model contents.