Questions - MikeWalkden/SCAPE GitHub Wiki

1. I am having difficulties in running the model, even with the example files. Am I correct in thinking that I download the files, then install Plato by Silverfrost, and run the SCAPE.exe file?

You may be slightly on the wrong track. The .exe file should just run without needing Sliverfrost Plato (that is only needed to edit the source code and improve the model). The approach I usually take is to create an empty folder and then copy in SCAPE.exe and the input files. You can just then run the .exe but I prefer to navigate to the folder in Matlab and then (in the Matlab command window) type ‘!SCAPE.exe’ This has the advantage that you can see any error messages that the code throws up.

2. In the outputs in the ROCK_PROFILES.txt file I am confused as to whether these groups of elements represent each profile 1-99 for a specific year (say 1015), and then profile 1-99 for the next year (say 1115), etc, or whether the groups of elements represent each year 1015 --> 1115 --> 1215 etc. for one section, before moving onto the next section starting at 1015 again.

This is described in the User Manual - in brief the model saves all sections for the first year that output is required, followed by all sections at the next year for which output is required.