This is not a course about using GUIs. There are many details that could be discussed regarding any particular GUI. The guidance related to GUIs will be limited in this class. As is the case with the other topics in the course, I hope that you will become familiar with the essential items through the class presentations and exercises and continue to learn about the GUI of your choosing long after the course is over. Notice that extensive documentation is supplied with both GUIs in the form of PDF files.

First we will follow a GWV tutorial. Next we will take a limited tour of the Ground Water Modeling System (GMS). There is a more extensive tour that you can explore when you open GMS on your system. After that we will use the example system presented in the GMS tutorial to illustrate the conceptual model approach. Finally, after setting up the files in GMS, we will import them into GWV and vice-versa.

Ground Water Vistas Tutorial

Ground Water Vistas Tutorial for the model problem we have been working

Ground Water Modeling System Tour

Start GMS on your computer
Choose Quick Tour rather than Start Using GMS
Click through the 18 or so basic slides until you get to the "learn more" section
Of the "learn more" modules, study
Map Module
MODFLOW Conceptual Model Approach

Ground Water Modeling System Tutorials

From the doc directory within your GMS directory, open "tutor40 vol2.pdf"
Chapters appropriate for your work in this class include 1, 2, 3, 11, 12
If you do not plan to go through all of them, then 3 and 12 are the most important to review