Welcome to the GoldSim Tutorial!

This tutorial will provide you with a very brief overview of simulation modeling in GoldSim. The hour or two that you spend with this Tutorial is likely to save you many hours of time.

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This Tutorial provides only a brief introduction to GoldSim, and only scratches the surface of GoldSim's capabilities. However, with the basic skills you learn here, you can begin to work in GoldSim, using other resources to learn more. At the end of the Tutorial, we will discuss these other resources (which include much more detailed and extensive online Courses).

This Tutorial uses conventions to make it easy for you to learn new terms, and complete the Tutorial exercises.

To do two things at once:

  1. Put your right hand on your head and move it up and down.
  2. Simultaneously, put your left hand on your stomach and move it in a circular motion.

Notes appear throughout the Tutorial to alert you to particular important information.They look like this:

Note: Putting your right hand on your head and moving it up and down, and simultaneously putting your left hand on your stomach and moving it in a circular motion will probably amuse your colleagues.

Previous and Next buttons in the upper right-hand corner of the page allow you to navigate through the Tutorial in its entirety, much like turning the pages in a book.

You can also browse the entire Tutorial or jump to a specific topic using the Navigation Pane of the tutorial.

This Tutorial is divided into five Lessons, and is designed such that each Lesson builds on the Lesson that preceded it. On the first page of each Lesson, an estimate is provided for how long it typically takes someone who is new to simulation concepts to complete the Lesson. For someone who is new to simulation, the entire Tutorial typically takes about two hours. If you are familiar with simulation concepts and tools, it will likely take significantly less time. Of course, if you can't finish it in one sitting, you can always navigate back to where you left off using the hyperlinks below, or by using the Navigation Pane.

Note: This Tutorial is meant as a primer to get you started using the basic GoldSim framework. It does not discuss any of the GoldSim extension modules (which will be briefly discussed in Lesson 5).