Purpose
In this hands-on workshop participants are introduced to the HEC-FDA Version 2 user interface. Participants will become familiar with the Impact Area set importer, Terrain importer, and Properties editor. Participants will also import an HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3 model into the Version 2 software. 
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Downloadable Materials

  • Part 1 – Review the example study data to familiarize yourself with the Muncie, Indiana study and download the study data. 
    • Download and save the Muncie data folder of data to the following path on your computer (same data used in all workshops, only download the data once if completing all workshops): C:\Workshops\FDA\data
  • Part 2 – Download: Workshop1-Part2_Data.zip (Workshop1-Part2_Data.7z) 
    • Download and save the Zipped Workshop Datafiles to the following path on your computer (and unzip the data): C:\Workshops\FDA\data

Workshop Overview

During this workshop students will:

  • Familiarize with the new user interface
  • Import a terrain
  • Import an Impact Area set
  • Explore study Properties
  • Set a spatial projection
  • Create a new HEC-FDA Version 2 study from a Version 1.4.3 study

Introduction to HEC-FDA

Per the day 1 reading assignments, you should have reviewed the HEC-FDA Quick Start Guides.

To Begin - Start Here

Download Workshop Materials

From the Downloadable Materials section on this page:

  1. Follow the link to download and install the HEC-FDA Version 2 software.
  2. Download and save the workshop datafiles. 
  3. Extract the downloaded datafiles. Right-click and select Extract All. Set the "Files will be extracted to this folder" path to: C:\Workshops\FDA 
  4. Note, if you extract the datafiles without setting the path identified above, then the path to your extracted data will be:
    1. Part 1 data will save to the following path: C:\Workshops\FDA\MuncieData
    2. Part 2 data will save to the following path: C:\Workshops\FDA\Workshop1-Part2\ApplicationGuideStartingData

Next - Continue to Part 1, Followed by Part 2