Examples and recipes
The quickest way to learn Quodsi is to open a working model, run it and change something. These pages show you how to map a client's process and what to look for.
Worked problems
| Page | The question | Model to open |
|---|---|---|
| Clinic | Would another provider shorten patient visits enough to pay for itself? | Yes: Example: Urgent Care System |
| Call center | How many agents do we need to meet our answer times? | No. You build this one, with smaller examples as a guide. |
| Production line | Which station limits output, and where should we spend money first? | No. You build this one, with smaller examples as a guide. |
How to open an example
- Go to drawio.quodsi.com.
- Choose Quodsi > Open Example Model…, or Open an example on the welcome screen.
- Pick an example from the list on the left, and read its summary on the right.
- Click Open.
The example opens as an unsaved copy. You can change anything without affecting the published model. If you want to keep your version, save it.
In Lucidchart There's no example picker. The guided tour adds an "Airport Security (example)" page to your document. See Quodsi for Lucidchart.
You can open an example without an account, but you need a free account to run it. Some examples use features from the Intermediate or Advanced complexity views. If you can't see a tab or a step that a page mentions, change the view in Settings. Changing the view never changes your model or its results.
What's in the picker
Learn examples teach one idea at a time. Industries examples are complete models.
| Group | Example | What it teaches |
|---|---|---|
| Getting Started | Generator and activity | The smallest model that runs. |
| Routing | Connector routing: probability, entity type, state condition | Every way an activity can choose its next step. |
| Actions | Split: one entity becomes three | One order splits into pieces. |
| Actions | Create: one order spawns three documents | An order creates new work that goes its own way. |
| Actions | Join: three pieces become one order again | Waiting until all the pieces of an order arrive. |
| Actions | Loop: three coats of paint | Repeating steps, such as several passes or rework. |
| Actions | Dispose: scrap a bad part at inspection | Ending an entity's journey partway, and counting why. |
| Actions | Seize and release: one nurse stays with each patient | Keeping a person or machine across several steps. |
| Actions | Assign: price each order, then route the big ones for approval | Storing a value on each order and routing by it. |
| Healthcare | Example: Urgent Care System | A complete clinic with shared staff and random patient paths. |