McIDAS-X Learning Guide
Version 2020

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GUI - Copying Images and Grids (Continued)

Copying Grids

The grid copy GUI has fewer options than the image copy GUI, but it still allows you the significant ones, like choosing specific beginning and ending grid numbers, along with the option to delete the destination set you will be copying the grids to.

In this lesson, you will use the local grids copied from this grid lesson. This test dataset will be used because the GRDCOPY GUI does not support GRIB data served from a database, which is how McIDAS-XCD stores real-time grids. Although no real-time data will be used in this exercise, you will still learn the basics of copying grids with the grid copy GUI.

  1. If you did not complete the grid lesson mentioned above, run these commands from the command line to create a grid dataset and GRDCOPY grids into it to use in the following GUI exercise.

    Type:    DSSERVE ADD MYDATA/TEST-GRIDS GRID 4000 4009 "Test grids
    Type:    GRDCOPY RTGRIDS/GFS MYDATA/TEST-GRIDS.1 DEL=YES DAY=#Y TIME=0 FHOUR=24 NUM=20

  2. Open the Grid Copy Window.

    Select:  Copy/Grids

  3. Select your Source Dataset and Grid to be copied.

    Select:  Source Dataset/MYDATA/TEST-GRIDS/OK
    Click:   Choose Dataset Position 1
    Click:   OK
    Click:   Select Source Grid(s)
    Select:  Sort Grids by:/Parameter
    Click:   Choose a RH grid for example
    Click:   OK

  4. Select the Destination Dataset.

    Select:  Destination Dataset/MYDATA/TEST-GRIDS/OK
    Select:  Browse Contents of Destination Dataset
    Click:   a grid file to copy over other than Dataset Position 1/OK
    Click:   Delete Destination Grid(s)
    Click:   Copy
    Click:   Dismiss

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