The Composition Dependent Section uses the Estimates Edit Dialog to view and edit composition estimates. The dialog is activated by clicking the left mouse button on the section's estimates table control or by selecting the Edit Variables & Detail Estimates command from the section's estimates table control commands menu. (See Estimates Commands Menu documentation for details.)

The Estimates dialog provides controls for displaying estimates, source information, editing compositions, sorting estimates, and regressing values.

1	Table Control: displays the current list of estimates. Each row contains compositions, and (possibly) an estimated value. Clicking the left mouse button on a table row selects that table row. Clicking and holding the left mouse button down and then dragging the mouse will select several table rows. Double-clicking the left mouse button on a row selects the row and edits the contents of that row.
2	Technique Control: displays the name of the estimation technique which generated the currently selected estimate.
3	Comments Control: displays the comments associated with the currently selected estimate.
4	Edit Button: activates the Estimate Edit dialog enabling you to enter the estimate's compositions. See the documentation below for details.
5	Commands Button: pressing the dialog's Commands button or clicking the right mouse button on the table control displays the commands menu. This menu provides standard commands for copying, pasting, and clearing state variables and estimates. See the documentation on Common Menu Commands for details.
6	Series Button: displays a menu allowing you to choose to generate a composition series. See below for documentation.
7	Sort Button: the dialog's Sort button will be enabled if two or more rows are selected. Pressing the Sort button activates the Sort Attribute dialog. This dialog enables you to sort estimates in ascending or descending order by the selected attribute.
8	Goal Seek Button: activates the Goal Seek dialog. This dialog enables you to find state variable values that generate a certain estimated value. See below for documentation.
9	Regress Button: activates the Values Regression Dialog enabling you to fit a variety of equations to the current estimates. See the Regress Values Dialog documentation for details.
10	Add Rows Button: pressing the Add Rows button will add rows to the bottom of the table control.

Clicking the right mouse button within the table control or pressing the dialog's Commands button displays the estimates commands menu.

The menu's commands enable you to copy, cut and paste values to and from the table control. See Common Menu Commands for documentation on the commands commonly found on command menus.

Clicking the left mouse button on a row in the table control or selecting a row and pressing the Edit button, activates the Estimate Edit Dialog. The dialog enables you to enter state variables and view current estimation values.

1	Units Controls: enables you to specify the composition units of the current estimate.
2	Component Controls: displays each of the components of the current mixture.
3	Composition Controls: enables you to enter compositions for each component.
4	Value Control: displays, if available, the estimated physical property value.
5	Value Units Control: displays the units of the estimated physical property value.
6	Technique Control: displays the name of the technique used to generate the current estimate.
7	Comments Control: displays comments generated by the application during the estimation process.
8	X Default Button: activates the Default Compositions Dialog which enables to select a default composition which will be entered into the composition controls. See below for documentation.
9	X Total Button: activates the Residual Composition Dialog which displays the current composition total and enables to assign the residual composition to an unassigned composition control. See below for documentation.
10	Tech Ref Button: retrieves the reference associated with this estimate's technique and opens the reference's associated document.

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Selecting a row in the Default Composition table control and pressing the OK button will insert the selected compositions into the Estimate Edit dialog's composition controls.

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1	Composition Total Control: displays the total of all entered compositions.
2	Units Control: displays the Estimate Dialog's currently selected composition units. Note that these units may be different from the current units being used in the application.
3	Residual Component Control: if there is only one component with an unassigned composition, this control displays that component's name.
4	Residual Concentration Control: if there is only one component with an unassigned composition, this control displays that component's composition that would bring the composition total to a value of 1 or 100, depending upon the current units.
5	Set Residue Button: if there is only one component with an unassigned composition and if there is a valid residual composition, pressing this button assigns the residual composition to the unassigned composition control.

It is very common to desire estimates over a range of compositions. Pressing the dialog's Series button activates the Composition Series dialog. The Composition Series Dialog enables you to generate a series of compositions varying between specified limits. See the Composition Series Dialog documentation for details.

Typically you first enter composition values and then request the application to generate an estimated property value. Sometimes, the opposite process is desired - you specify a desired property value and ask the application to determine the state variables that would generate that property value. The Goal Seek Dialog provides tools that enable you to make such estimations. See here for documentation.

Topic	Description
Getting Started using Synapse	provides a quick tour of Synapse's capabilities including examples of chemical product design.
Getting Started using Cranium	provides a quick tour of Cranium's capabilities including a discussion of structure editing.
Estimating Chemical Properties	a short video demonstrating how to estimate the physical properties of chemicals using either Synapse or Cranium.
Estimating Mixture Properties	a short video demonstrating how to estimate the physical properties of mixtures using either Synapse or Cranium.