Material Supply Storage Unit Dialog: Properties tab

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This tab is part of the dialog that presents the properties of a material supply storage unit.

Specification Choices / Comments

Name

The name of the supply unit can be provided in this edit box.

Material Supplied

From this section you may select the material that is supplied by this storage unit. It can be a pure component or a stock mixture. The material supply unit basis (mass or volume) displayed in the resource charts is inherited by the supplied material component or stock mixture) and cannot be changed by the user at this point.

Linked (Cascading) Storage Units

In the table shown, you can associate with this storage unit one ore more other supply material SUs when the replenishment of this storage unit will requiring drawing material from other SUs. For each of the other source SUs, you can specify a material factor that will determine the rate of demand on the source cascading SU relative to the required replenishing rate of this SU.

Material Cost

The material cost displayed here is the material cost of the selected material supplied by the storage unit. It cannot be changed. The only way to change it is to visit the Pure Component Properties Dialog: Economics Tab.