e!Sankeyv4.1UserManualifuHamburgGmbHMax-Brauer-Allee5022765Hamburg/GermanyDocVersion:3.12Date:August2016Publisher:ifuHamburgGmbH!Sankey®isaregisteredtrademarkofifuHamburgGmbHMicrosoftandMSareregisteredtrademarks.WindowsandExcelaretrademarksofMicrosoftCorp.Otherbrandandproductnamesaretrademarksorregisteredtrademarksoftheirrespectiveholders.Informationinthisusermanualissubjecttochangewithoutnotice.Noliabilityforthecorrectnessoftheinformationinthismanual.Allfiguresareforillustrationpurposesonlyandcontainfictitiousdata.Reproductionortranslationofthismanualispermittedandencouraged,aslongastheoriginalauthorandthedocumentversionnumberanddatearecited,andthecopyrightnoticeismaintained.ifuHamburgGmbHe!Sankey4UserManualPage3Contents1Introduction..................................................................................42Installation...................................................................................6LicenseActivation..........................................................................73GeneralFunctionsofe!Sankey......................................................11ScreenLayoutandWindowsHandling............................................11Undo/Redo..................................................................................13Search.......................................................................................13OptionSettings...........................................................................144GettingStarted............................................................................16CreatingaDiagramFile................................................................16ThreeBasicSteps:DrawingProcessesandArrows,EnteringFlows....165Arrows.......................................................................................20ArrowProperties..........................................................................20ArrowLabels...............................................................................22FlowLabels.................................................................................24ArrowRoutingandWaypoints.......................................................306Processes...................................................................................35OptionsforProcesses...................................................................35UsingImagesandIconsforProcesses............................................37HiddenProcesses.........................................................................38ChangingProcessSizeandShape..................................................39AligningProcesses.......................................................................397AdditionalDiagramElements.........................................................41GraphicalShapes.........................................................................41TextElement...............................................................................41Legend.......................................................................................42Scale..........................................................................................42BackgroundImage.......................................................................43UsefulHintsforDrawingSankeyDiagrams.....................................458Entries.......................................................................................469UnitTypes..................................................................................5010Templates...................................................................................5611LiveLinktoExcel.........................................................................5712ExportingandPrinting..................................................................6113FurtherHints...............................................................................62Index..............................................................................................64e!Sankey4ifuHamburgGmbHPage4UserManual1Introductione!Sankeyisasoftwaretoolthathelpsyoudrawso-calledSankeydiagrams.Figure1:AsimpleSankeydiagramSankeydiagramsaredirectedgraphs,wherethemagnitudeofthearrowlinerepresentsthequantityofflow.Today,Sankeydiagramsareusedforavarietyofflowvisualizations.Thesearenotlimitedtoenergyormaterial,butindeedtoany(realorvirtual)matterthatflowsfromasourcetoadestination.Sankeydiagramsareaspecifictypeofflowdiagram,inwhichthewidthofthearrowsisshownproportionallytotheflowquantity.Theyaretypicallyusedtovisualizeenergyormaterialtransfersbetweenprocesses.(Wikipedia)Sankeydiagramvisualizationsdrawtheviewersattentiontothelargestflows,whileatthesametimeshowingtheproportionsoftheflowsamongeachotherandindicatingafrom-toflowdirection.Inthatsensetheyconveyefficiencyoftransformationprocessesandalsoallowtoassessthebalanceofinput/outputstreams.SankeydiagramsarenamedafterCaptainMatthewHenryPhineasRiallSankey,anIrishengineer(1853-1925).Thesoftwaree!SankeyisamemberoftheUmbertosoftware1family.Whilee