STARTING TRANSGEN

TransGen Control Menu

The Control Menu is the module launcher for TransGen

To access the Control Menu and the TransGen Introduction window, type '/<TG_HOME>/bin/transgen` at an Xterm prompt (where <TG_HOME> is the installation directory of TransGen).

The TransGen Control Menu is active throughout a TransGen session and should be displayed at some convenient location on your screen.

When the Control Menu is first accessed, only the Workflow Advisor, Project Selection, Xphoto and Exit options are active, as shown above. The FileGen, WizGen, ViewGen and 2PhaseGen modules are inaccessible until a TransGen Project on which to work has been created/selected.

Also initially displayed is the Introduction pop-up window (shown below) summarises what the TransGen program does and the function of the modules within TransGen.
Click on OK to close the window. (Optionally set the Do not display again option "on" before closing the window to prevent the display of this Information window when opening TransGen in future.)

Create a new or select an existing TransGen Project via the Project selection icon to activate all the icons on the Control Menu (as shown below with the project PUNQ_DYNAMIC selected).

The Control Menu is the means of access into all the TransGen modules via selectable icons including:-

Workflow Advisor - to access the on-line Help documentation.

Project selection - to create/select the active TransGen project and manage the TransGen tasks.

FileGen - optionally to select and structure the input data relevant  to the active TransGen project from one or more Eclipse data files.

NOTE:- The FileGen icon is "greyed-out" and inoperable in the TransGen 3.2 release unless the "Allow access to FileGen" option is toggled "on" in the Project Information window when creating a new or opening an existing TransGen project - see Project Selection.

WizGen - to interactively create (or modify) the settings in the TGDATA run file which control the TransGen run.

ViewGen - to calculate fault transmissibility information for inclusion in the Eclipse reservoir simulation model and optionally to display the model geometry, inputs and outputs in the 3D viewer.

2PhaseGen - to calculate relative permeabilities for oil and water and hence the fault transmissibility information.

Xphoto - to provide Hardcopy output in PNG, JPEG or RGB format from a TransGen session.

Exit - to quit the current TransGen session and close down all active modules.

For a newly created TransGen project, the main modules should be used in the order in which they are arranged on the Control Menu, i.e. Project selection to create/open the TransGen project, FileGen to pre-process the input Eclipse format files, WizGen to create the TransGen run file, ViewGen to view the input model, calculate the effect of the fault-rocks properties and generate output data as specified in the run file and then optionally 2PhaseGen if using TransGen including two-phase fault rock calculations.