File -> New

The File->New menu option allows the user to create a new VCell project (BioModel or MathModel).

Clicking on the File->New menu option shows another menu where the user can choose to create either a new BioModel, MathModel. Clicking on any of those options opens a new project of the chosen type. Note that if the user wishes to create a MathModel, there are four further options (provided in the next level of menu) to create a MathModel:

• Non-spatial - creates a non-spatial (with Ordinary Differential Equations) MathModel.
• Spatial from database geometry - creates a spatial MathModel where the spatial geometry is selected from VCell geometries stored in the VCell database (any geometry that belongs to the current user or that is shared by other users).
  
  

• Spatial from new geometry - creates a spatial MathModel from a new geometry. The image below shows the dialog the user is prompted with to create a new geometry. The geometry can be analytical (1, 2, or 3D); image-based (from VCell database or imported from image file and processed); mesh-based (from STL file); copied from a BioModel application or another MathModel or a saved Geometry from the VCell database; or created from scratch. For further information on creating geometries, refer to the section on Geometry.

  
  
  

• From BioModel - creates a MathModel from an existing BioModel within the list of the user's BioModels (or those that are shared with the user). Upon selecting the BioModel, a dialog prompts the user to select an application from a list of all applications in the BioModel that should be converted to a MathModel. Note: Each application has a separate MathModel associated with it.