Predictor 7810

Hands on Exercises

Based on
Predictor Type 7810, Version 12

October, 2017
 Overview Predictor GUI and mouse menu .......................................................................... 3
Getting started with Predictor ............................................................................................... 4
Structuring your project ........................................................................................................ 4
General features .................................................................................................................... 5
Groups ................................................................................................................................... 7
Storage of results................................................................................................................... 7
Showing results as labels for receiver points ........................................................................ 7
Showing results as contours for grids ................................................................................... 8
Control values ....................................................................................................................... 9
Group Reductions/Table of Control...................................................................................... 9
Source Reductions/Table of Results ................................................................................... 11
Bush road (ISO 9613.1/2 Road).......................................................................................... 12
Effect of temperature/Table of Comparisons ...................................................................... 15
Exercises Import DXF/BMP/SHP ....................................................................................... 16
DXF import as items ........................................................................................................... 17
BMP as background map .................................................................................................... 18
SHP import.......................................................................................................................... 18
Exercises Acoustic Determinator......................................................................................... 20
Running engine ................................................................................................................... 20
Exercises Predictor Analyst ................................................................................................. 21
Export of results from Predictor ......................................................................................... 21
Import of results in Predictor analyst .................................................................................. 22
Noise exposure .................................................................................................................... 23
More information .................................................................................................................. 24
Predictor-LimA Type 7810 ................................................................................................. 24
Predictor Analyst type 7813................................................................................................ 24
Acoustic Determinator Type 7816 ...................................................................................... 24

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 Overview Predictor GUI and mouse menu

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 Getting started with Predictor
The Predictor concept focuses on structuring and organising your models within a Predictor
project. A well structured project will save valuable time, is always reproducible, gives insight
to other users and will, therefore, lead to higher quality. These exercises handle most of the
organisation options of Predictor. A general knowledge of the Microsoft Windows user
interface is assumed. In specific the Windows Copy/Paste options and the use of the Multi
Document Interface. If necessary, additional help can be obtained with the menu option
Help|Contents or with the [Help] button on a specific form.

Structuring your project

This exercise handles some of the model management options of Predictor. Giving meaningful
names to your areas, versions and models will help you and your college’s to find and retrieve
this information, also after many years. Making models final will assure you that important
models will not be modified.
1. Start Predictor
2. Open the project ‘example-1’ in the ‘getting started with Predictor’ folder;
3. Modify the name of the area from ‘Area’ to ‘Rotterdam harbour area’. This can be done
by clicking on the area and using the [Info] button on the Open Model form. Next the
Area Info form will be shown. On the Description Tab page the name of the area can be
modified;

4. Also modify the ‘Responsible’ field to

your own name;
5. Now modify the name of the version from
‘Version’ to ’Situation 2015’ and modify
the ‘Responsible’ field to your own name;
6. Next modify the name of the model from
‘initial model’ to ‘Industry’ and modify
the ‘Responsible’ field to your own name.
Click the [OK] button;
7. Next use the [Info] button again and click
on the [Make Final] button and give the
reason why you want to make the model
final. For instance ‘Original model’.
Note: A green curl-symbol will appear behind the name of the model once the model
has been made final

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General features
This exercise handles some of the viewing options of
Predictor.
• Select the final model ‘Industry’ and make a
copy of the model by clicking on the [Copy]
button;
Note: A copy of a final model can be modified
again.
• Open the ISO model ‘Copy of Industry’ in
version ‘Situation 2015’;
• Select the menu option View | Toolbar |
Customize and set the toolbars as shown in the
figure on the right:
• Next select View | Toolbar | Items to activate
the item toolbar, if this is not already
activated;
• Select the Display Setting in the side bar and
set the ‘Name’ attribute as a ‘Label’ for Point
source items, Line source items and for
Receiver items;

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 • Practice the View | 3D Viewer option;

In the 3D View mode, several zoom options are available. You can also move the model
by dragging with the mouse using the pan button, or by pressing the wheel button. Use
the arrow buttons (on toolbar or keyboard) to rotate the 3D view from the left to the
right and from bottom to top.
Note: If the model contains height lines and/or calculated contours, various buttons are
available for presenting the terrain model and the horizontal/vertical contours.
• Practice the View | Cross Section menu option and the View | Measure Distance menu
option;

Note: Use the ‘Edit|Snap to items’ menu option to select the source and the receiver.
• Question: What is the exact distance between the point source ‘Lorrie 2’ and receiver
‘P1’?
Note: When using the’ View|Measure Distance’ option, the measured distance is given
next to the mouse cursor.

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Groups
Groups are used to group sources together in meaningful units. At large industrial sites,
groups can be used to define the individual factories. For urban traffic, groups can be used to
define the individual roads. A road in that case will exist of more then 1 lane.
1. Select the menu option Model |
Group Manager and browse through
the group structure.
Note 1: Groups are mainly used for
grouping sources. However you can
also put other objects like buildings
belonging to those sources in the
same group.
Note 2: The receivers are mostly put
in the top level also called ‘ The
main group’.

Storage of results
This exercise shows the options for result
storage. There are 3 options: ‘Source results’,
‘Group results’ and ‘ Total results’. The
higher the level of detail the larger the project
size will become and the lower the need for
recalculation.
1. Select the menu option Calculations |
Start Calculation;
2. Click on the button [Calculation
Settings];
3. Set the Model Options for Result
Storage for Receivers to ‘ Source
Results’ and for Grids to ‘Group
Results’;
4. Start the calculation.

Showing results as labels for receiver points

This exercise handles the use of the Active Period and Active
Group options while showing results on receiver points
1. Select the menu option Results | Result Labels. Select
‘Display calculated value’;
It’s now possible to see the calculated value at each
receiver point.
2. Use the Active Period selection option in the speed bar
to toggle between day, evening, night and Lden;
3. Use the Active Group selection option in the speed bar
to toggle between the groups ‘Main Group’, ‘
Distribution centre’ and ‘ Warehouse’;
4. Select the menu option ‘Results | No Results’.
Note: The model cannot be modified while results are
shown on the model.

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Showing results as contours for grids
This exercise handles the use of the Active Period and Active Group options while showing
results for grids.
5. Select the menu option Results |
Contours. Show the contours for
the different presentation
options ‘Filled contours’,
‘Isolines’ and ‘Calculated
values’;
6. Use the Active Period selection
option in the speed bar to toggle
between day, evening, night and
Lden;
7. Use the Active Group selection
option in the speed bar to toggle
between the groups ‘Main
Group’, ‘ Distribution centre’ and ‘ Warehouse’;
8. Select the menu option Results | No Results.
Note: The model cannot be modified while results are shown on the model.

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 Control values
Control values are used to compare the calculated values with reference values such as
permitted values, measured values, zoning values etc.
1. Select the menu option Model | Control Values;
2. Modify the permitted levels for the main group on receivers ‘P1’ and ‘P2’ to 55, 50 and
45.

Note 1: You can use the multi-edit option to edit the two control values simultaneously.
First select the two rows by shift-clicking on the receiver-description. Then click on the
[Edit..] button.
Note 2: In this example control values are put on the main group. It is also possible to
put control values on the individual groups.

Group Reductions/Table of Control

Group reductions are used to show the effect of a reduction on a complete group of sources
such as a complete factory, or a complete road. A recalculation is not needed when the option
for result storage is set to ‘Group results’ or ‘Source results’. Predictor automatically checks
this. If a recalculation is needed Predictor will show ‘< - - >’ as a result.
1. Select the menu option Results | Table of Control;
2. Select ‘Lden’as the period and ‘Permitted values’ as Category;
3. Sort the columns on ‘ Exceeding result’ and sort the rows on ‘ Result’;
4. Put a Group reduction of 5dB for the day, evening and night period on ‘Distribution
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5. Show the contours again and select ‘Distribution centre’ as Active group and ‘Lden’ as
Active period;

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 6. Use the GR button on the speed bar to toggle the contours between excluding and
including group reductions;

7. Select the menu option Results | No Results.

Note: The model cannot be modified while results are shown on the model.

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Source Reductions/Table of Results
Source reductions are used to show the effect of a reduction on 1 or more individual sources.
A recalculation for receiver points is only needed for the modified sources when the option for
result storage is set to Source results. Predictor automatically checks this. If a recalculation is
needed Predictor will show ‘< - - >’ as a result.
1. Open the table of results with the
menu option Results | Table of
Results, Sort the list on the Lden
period and double click on the most
dominant receiver point. Next you
will see the results per group.
2. Next double click on the dominant
group and you will see the results
per source for this group;
3. Double click on the most dominant
source (Cooler bank). This will open
the attribute form for the source;
4. Put a reduction of 5 dB for all
octaves on this source and close the source
form;
5. Notice the effect on the total level for this
receiver and also on the totals of the other receivers.
You will notice that there is no need for
recalculation;
6. Close the model.

Note: Although there is no need for recalculation the receiver points, you still need to
recalculate grids, because grid results cannot be stored per source.

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Bush road (ISO 9613.1/2 Road)
This exercise handles the copying and pasting of items between models and the entering of a
polyline road and using a satellite image as reference.
1. Select the menu option Model | Open and create a new model with name ‘Bush road’
and calculation method ‘ISO 9613.1/2 Road;
2. Open the new model ‘Bush road’ and also open the ISO 9613.1/2 model ‘Copy of
Industry’;
Note: You can open multiple models at the same time by first using Ctrl-click to select
the models in the Open Model form and then click on the [Open] button.
3. Select Window | Tile Horizontally;
4. Use the ‘Zoom Extents’
button for both models;
5. Copy all items from the
industry model into the Road
model. This can be done by a
single mouse click on the
original model (to make it the
active model) then selecting
all items with CTRL-A, then
copying the selection to the
Windows clipboard with
CTRL-C, then clicking on the
new model (to make the new
model the active model)
followed by CTRL-V in order
to paste the items;
Note: Industrial sources cannot be copied into a road traffic model. However buildings,
ground regions, receivers and grids, can be copied between all types of methods.
6. Close the industry model and maximize the road model. Also use the ‘Zoom
Boundaries’ button;
7. Select the menu option View | Background Maps and open the bitmap file
‘schiedam.jpg’ in the ‘example-1’ project folder as a background. In the background
map you can see a road starting left above going between the buildings to right above;
8. Select the menu option Edit | Add Item
| Road. The mouse cursor should now
change to a cross;
9. Carefully draw the road as 1 polyline
by clicking on nodes in the centre of
the road in the background. Double
click on the last node to end the
polyline, or use the right mouse button
to end the input of nodes. Next the road
attribute form will be shown;
10. Set the input type to ‘Traffic flow’;
11. Modify the speed to 50 km/hr for all
categories.
12. Modify the traffic flow in the day/evening/night period for the light vehicles to
500/300/100, 50/30/10 for the light trucks and 30/10/10 for the heavy trucks;

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 13. Select View | Background Maps and deselect the background;
14. Start the calculation and show the contours;

15. Active the background again and show the contours transparent on the background.

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 16. Now open the model ‘Copy of Industry’ as a background model using ‘Model | Open
Background Model’.
17. Show the contours again, but now select the option ‘Cumulate (FG+BG)’

Now you see the cumulated contours from the industrial and the road traffic models.

18. Close the model ‘Bush road’.

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Effect of temperature/Table of Comparisons
This exercise handles the effect of temperature on the calculation and the use of the table of
comparisons.
1. Make a copy of the ISO 9613.1/2 model ‘Copy of Industry’ and modify the name of the
model to ’20 degrees’;
2. Open the model and modify the temperature to
20 degrees Celcius (=293.15 degrees Kelvin);

3. Calculate the model;

4. Select the menu option Model | Open
Background Model and select the original model as background model.
5. Select the menu option Results | Table of Comparisons;
6. Question: What is the maximum difference in the total dB value in the day period and
on which receiver does it occur.

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Exercises Import DXF/BMP/SHP
Note: The DXF, BMP and SHP files are located in the subfolder ‘data’ in the ‘getting started
with Predictor’ folder

DXF as background map

This exercise handles the use of a DXF file as
background map.
1. Create a new ISO model with name ‘City’
and open the model;
2. Select the menu option View | Background
Maps;
3. Select the file ‘data\dxf\city.dxf’;
4. De-select ‘Show text’ and select ‘Black
and white’;
5. Click on the ‘OK’ button;
6. Use the menu option View | Zoom | Zoom
Extents to see the background map;
Note: The menu option ‘View|Zoom|Zoom
Extents’ will always zoom to all open
background maps and all items in the
model;

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DXF import as items
This exercise handles the use of a DXF file as import for items.
1. Select the menu option File |
Import | CAD File
(DXF/DWG);
2. Select the file
‘data\dxf\city.dxf’;
3. Select layer ‘Gebouwen’;
4. Select the item type
‘Building’ for Areas;
5. Zoom to the new imported
items by first selecting all
items with ‘CRTL-A’ and
then selecting menu option
View | Zoom | Zoom to
Selection.

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 BMP as background map
This exercise handles the use of a BMP file as background map.
1. Select the menu option View | Background Maps;
2. Select the file ‘data\bmp\city.bmp’;
3. Use the coordinates 90119,469796 for the upper left corner and 9528 and -9528 for the
width and the height.

SHP import
This exercise handles the use of a SHP file as import for items .
1. Create a new model. Open this model;
2. Use the menu option File|Import|Shape file (*.shp) and import the buildings from the
shape file ‘data\shp\city_buildings.shp’.

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Exercises Acoustic Determinator
Acoustic Determinator Type 7816 is a very convenient and intuitive tool to determine the
sound power level of industrial sources by measuring sound pressure levels in the field.

Running engine
The engine is located outdoor on a hard surface with no other reflecting planes nearby. The
background noise can be neglected. Engine dimensions: 2*2*2 meter. 4 measurement points,
each on 5 meter distance from the centre of the engine and on 1.5 m height.

Average measured level on 4 positions in dB(A) per octave

63 125 250 500 1k 2k 4k 8k
40 45 55 90 90 80 75 70

Exercises:
1. Make an ISO 9613.1/2 model in Predictor with 1 point source and 1 receiver on 5
meter distance. The height of the source and the height of the receiver is 1.5 meter;

2. Start Acoustic Determinator;

3. Calculate the sound power of the engine with ISO 3744.

4. Click on the text ‘engine’ in the project tree.

5. Select ‘copy’ from the right mouse menu or use ‘CRTL-C’;
6. Switch over to Predictor using ‘ALT-TAB’;
7. Double click on the point source;
8. Click on the button ‘From Clipboard’ in the point source attribute dialogue;
9. Start the calculation and view the result on the receiver point.

Question: Is the calculated level in Predictor the same as the measured level?
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Exercises Predictor Analyst
Export of results from Predictor
This exercise handles the export of results from Predictor
1. Start Predictor and open the project ‘example-2’ in
the ‘getting started with Predictor’ folder;
2. Open model ‘Bush road’ and select the menu option
File|Export|Export Point Results;
3. Only select ‘grid points’ and the heights. So
deselect ‘Receiver points’, ‘Contour points’ and
‘vertical grid points’;
Note: All results will be stored into 1 file. It is not
recommended to mix vertical grid results and
normal grid results in 1 result file.
4. Set the file name for export to ‘road results.txt’ in
the ‘getting started with Predictor’ folder;
5. Select ‘Include Meta information’ at the text setting
tab page.
Note: Including meta information is important for
the import in Predictor Analyst. Predictor analyst
will recognise the meta information as coming from
Predictor.
6. Select ‘main group’ and all periods at the Select
Group/Period(s) tab page.
7. Open industrial noise model ‘Copy of Industry’ and
repeat the export of grid results. Now save the
results as ‘industry results.txt’ in the ‘getting started
with Predictor’ folder;

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Exercises Predictor Analyst
Import of results in Predictor analyst
This exercise handles the import of results in Predictor Analyst.
1. Start Predictor Analyst;
2. Deselect all noise types except ‘Urban road’ and
‘Industry’ on the project information form;
3. Browse/click through the project tree and select the
data tab page for ‘Urban road traffic’ in the day
period;
4. Add the file ‘road results.txt’ from the ‘getting started
with Predictor’ folder;
Note: Notice that Analyst automatically creates a new
branch in the project tree with the name of the file.
5. Repeat this for the evening and night period;
6. Browse/click through the project tree and select the
data tab page for ‘Industry’ in the day period.
7. Add the file ‘industry results.txt’;
8. Repeat this for the evening and night period;
Note: Notice that Analyst automatically recognizes
the txt file as an export from Predictor. If the txt file is
not recognised as an export from Predictor additional
questions regarding the file format will be asked.
Predictor Analyst can import all txt files that are
column wise structured.
9. Click on the ‘road result’ branch in the project tree to
see the original imported results;
10. Start the calculation of the contours;
11. Show the interpolated contours by selecting the
viewer tab page for ‘Urban road traffic’;
12. Show the accumulated contours by selecting the
viewer tab page for ‘Day period’.

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Exercises Predictor Analyst
Noise exposure
This exercise examines the use of a clipping polygon and a postcode file to calculate the
number of exposed people and dwellings.
1. Open the PDA project ‘demo project.gna’ in the
‘pda_demo’ subfolder of the ‘getting started with
Predictor’ folder;
2. Browse through the project tree and view all the noise
maps per period and per noise type;
3. Click on the Project level in the project tree to show
the project information;
4. Select the file ‘centre border.shp’ in the ‘pda_demo’
folder as calculation boundary;
5. Recalculate the project by clicking on the calculator
icon in the speed bar;
Note: A calculation in PDA can take some time. It
involves merging, triangulation, interpolation,
accumulation, classification, dissolving and clipping.
6. Browse through the project tree and view all the noise
maps now clipped for the city boundary;
7. Select the Lden noise map for ‘Urban road traffic’
8. Calculate the noise exposed area for the city by using
the menu option Analyse|Area;
9. Calculate the number of exposed people and dwellings by using the menu option
Analyse|Demographic Data. Use the file ‘zipcode points.shp’ in the ‘pda_demo’ folder
for the object information and select the information fields ‘Points’ ‘Dwellings’ and
‘People’.

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Thank you for using this Getting Started Guide,
and good luck with your Predictions.

More information

Predictor-LimA Type 7810

Download demo software, Product Datasheet, videos, please see:
www.bksv.com/7810

Predictor Analyst type 7813

Download demo software, Product Datasheet, videos, please see:
www.bksv.com/7813

Acoustic Determinator Type 7816

Download demo software, Product Datasheet, videos, please see:
www.bksv.com/7816

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