Simgua is a powerful modeling tool similar to VenSim, PowerSim or STELLA that can solve complex simulation problems with surprising ease. Simgua's foundation is an intuitive flow and stock principle. Stocks - or reservoirs - of some material are connected by a series of flows. The stocks can contain any material - water, air, dollars, or even chickens - and the quantity of the flows are specified by the user using mathematical equations or formulas. This seemingly simple base can be used to model incredibly complex systems including the following:
Environmental Models:
What's New
Version 3.7.7.3.1630:
Ability to adjust model parameters and flows during a simulation
Ability to restrict stocks to only positive values
Improved method of entering units in equations (e.g. "{4 Meters}")
Additional minor feature enhancements and stability improvements
Requirements
PPC / Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Apple's free X11 application must also be installed.
I like Simgua quite a bit. A few months ago I bought the educational version to teach myself system dynamics in order to do some volunteer teaching at my children's elementary school. The documentation is good - gets you going from scratch, and gives a decent introduction to system dynamics overall. The interface is a bit clunky - the graphical view is for display-only -- editing is not WYSWIG, but it works fine. Updates are coming regularly, and each one adds powerful analyses or features. The educational price is very good. Since I haven't used STELLA, I don't know how the features compare, but the full price of STELLA is over twice that of Simgua.
Simulation tool for so called system dynamics problems.
Simgua is not so easy to use. You cannot interact graphically with flow, stock and links icons... Compare with STELLA or MADONNA.
Simulation is slooooow (try Runge Kutta 4th order).
No ps or eps or pdf graphics. It's not serious!
The only choice to export results is Excel but the resulting .xls file makes open office hang.
Simgua crashes continually. Amateurish work.
$860.0: is this price a joke!
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Simgua is a powerful modeling tool similar to VenSim, PowerSim or STELLA that can solve complex simulation problems with surprising ease. Simgua's foundation is an intuitive flow and stock principle. Stocks - or reservoirs - of some material are connected by a series of flows. The stocks can contain any material - water, air, dollars, or even chickens - and the quantity of the flows are specified by the user using mathematical equations or formulas. This seemingly simple base can be used to model incredibly complex systems including the following:
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Dylan-Mcnamee reviewed on 12 Nov 2009
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Simgua is not so easy to use. You cannot interact graphically with flow, stock and links icons... Compare with STELLA or MADONNA.
Simulation is slooooow (try Runge Kutta 4th order).
No ps or eps or pdf graphics. It's not serious!
The only choice to export results is Excel but the resulting .xls file makes open office hang.
Simgua crashes continually. Amateurish work.
$860.0: is this price a joke!
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a.krzyzak reviewed on 02 Jan 2009