Chapter C

Exercise 1: Creating the Tutorial

Project
The first step in designing a new power system (including that of the Tutorial) is to create a project. A
project offers the basic structure in which to define and store power system definitions, together with
their design stages and single line diagrams, type libraries, calculation stages, calculation commands,
etc.
This chapter describes how to create a new project and explains most of its features. For new users it is
recommended to read the preceding tutorial chapters before starting with the tutorial exercises. These
will provide the user with the PowerFactory terminology and concepts required to easily understand the
rest of the tutorial.
The Tutorial Manager is a special PowerFactory feature designed to guide the user through the tutorial.
With the exception of the first exercise, it will be used to install a specific project at the beginning of each
exercise. For the first exercise the Tutorial Manager cannot be used, because the first exercise requires
the user to create a project of their own.
C.1 Starting PowerFactory
When starting PowerFactory a user account will be created automatically. The user name of the Windows
account will be used per default.
The location where the Tutorial Manager stores the tutorial projects is called the User folder (the User
folder has the user name entered into the Logon dialogue window). The User folder will be the folder
created for you by the administrator, or by yourself as written above. The active User folder is marked
by a small blue screen icon inside the Data Manager (the Data Manager will be explained in Chapter E
(Exercise 3: The Data Manager). See Figure C.1.1 for an example with the user named “Tutorial User".