Damage Path Tool Jobsheet 2

Jobsheet #2: Creating Other Damage Paths

  1. Load a product that can help identify the area you wish to highlight (e.g. Storm Total Precip, for a flooding event).
  2. Select Damage Path from the CAVE Tools menu (Fig. 1).
  3. Modify the polygon to match the area you wish to highlight.
  • Left click and hold on vertices to drag them, (Fig. 2) left click and hold over the polygon itself to move the entire polygon (Fig. 3).
  • Right click and hold, or middle click to add a vertex (Fig. 4).
  • Right click and hold on any vertex to remove a vertex (Fig. 5).
  1. Right click anywhere on your damage path polygon and select Set Properties (Fig. 6).
  2. This will pull up the polygon's properties editor GUI (Fig. 7).
  3. Select the appropriate hazard from the Hazard Type dropdown menu (Fig. 8).
  4. Give the event a name, set the event time to the start of the tornado and provide brief comments. The CWA, Workstation and user entries cannot be edited (Fig. 9).
  5. Export the finished product to the DAT Server by right clicking on the product menu and selecting Export to LDAD (Fig. 10).