7.3.1. User settings<br>

### 7.3.1. User settings

¨ To display user settings window select “Options / Settings”.

The “Program settings” window has four tabs:

- “Designer data” – here you can append text data on the company, investor and designer.

- “Screen appearance” – here you can specify how part of the screen should look and the colours used in editing.

- “Files” – here you can specify what happens upon opening a file, automatic file saving frequency and saving options on exiting the application.

- “General” – here you can specify other settings.

- “Messages” – here you can specify which warnings and hints are not to be displayed upon completing calculations.

“Screen appearance” tab:

- “Show” – toggles on and off rulers and status line.

- “Status line” – status line options.

- “Hint area shape” – enables specifying the shape of hint area which is displayed when you position the mouse pointer on an item on the screen.

- “Hints in data table” – when you position the mouse pointer on some of the fields in the data table, hints are displayed. Here you can switch off the display of these hints.

- “Hints for project components” - when you position the mouse pointer on a project component, hints are displayed with that component’s data and, if available, calculation results. Here you can switch off the display of these hints.

- “Show group in data table as ...” – when a fitting component is placed on a component (e.g. a valve on a pipe-run), the data table includes both the pipe-run data and the valve data. The valve data may be displayed or hidden (see section 4.10.5). Here you can determine the manner of presenting data upon marking a component.

- “Auxiliary windows” – these include: data table, error list, data sets list, letter shortcut list, etc. Here you can force these windows to be displayed without titles. This enables more information to be displayed. Windows differ from one another in colour and contents, so mistakes are unlikely.

- “Show layers as” – here you can determine how the project layers are to be displayed – as tabs or as check lists (see section 4.2).

- “Selected component colour” – colour in which the marked components are drawn.

- “Workspace colour” – background colour during editing.

- “Crosshairs cursor” and “ Crosshairs cursor colour” – crosshairs cursor consists of two perpendicular lines which are displayed in the workspace at the current position of the mouse pointer. This cursor facilitates positioning of components in relation to each other. Here you can switch this cursor on and specify its colour.

- “Zoom in/out increment” – here you can specify the percentage increment of zooming in and out (when using Zoom in and Zoom out commands).

- “Animate zoom in/out” – when this box is checked, the magnified/shrunk area is displayed by means of animated rectangles during zoom in/out. This helps to see how the viewed area is changed.

“Files” tab:

- “Position on open file” – project view displayed upon opening it.

- “Lock on open file” – LOCK mode (section 4.6.2), which locks components. This can be altered after opening the file:

1. “No change” – opening of a file does not change the current LOCK mode setting.

2. “Same as last edit” – the same LOCK mode is set as during last save of the file.

3. “Lock” – the LOCK mode is always enabled after opening of a file.

- “Error list on open file” – here you can specify whether the error list is shown upon opening a file if errors occur.

- “Autosave” – data can be saved automatically at specified time intervals. Here you can toggle autosave on and off and specify the time interval.

- “Read AUTOREAD for new data” – toggles on and off the loading of options and initial project contents from the AUTOREAD file. You’ll find more information in section 7.16.

- “Display welcome window on start-up” – here you can specify whether the welcome window (with three basic commands: New, Open, Open last) is to be displayed on program start.

- “Save options” – here you can specify which settings are saved on exiting the application, this applies to: contents of toolbar, all settings in the “Program settings” window and screen layout (positions of such items as data table, error list, toolbars).

- “Save toolbar now” – enables immediate saving of the toolbar in its current state.

- “Store names of last ‘x’ files” – the graphical editor stores the names of the files recently opened and displays them in the “File” menu to facilitate their reopening. Here you can specify how many names you want to store.

- “Show recent file names with full path” - when this box is checked, the file names shown in the “File” menu are displayed with their full access paths. This is useful when you work with files saved to different disks.

“General” tab:

- “Message duration” – time duration of the display of minor messages in the status line (e.g. “cannot place component here”).

- “Undo options” – options of the Undo and Redo commands. You’ll find more information in section 4.7.

- “Restore screen position on Undo and Redo” - when this box is checked, the program tries to restore screen position and zoom level on "Undo" and "Redo". If the box is not checked, screen position is not restored.

- “Double click in data table” – operation executed when you double click on a selection field in the data table.

- “Select values in check lists by” – select single or double click for confirming selections in lists for selection fields.

- “Open group in check list by” – select single or double click for opening subgroups in lists for selection fields.

- “Immediately scroll with the slider” – When this box is checked, the view of the project on the screen is moved as you move the slider on the horizontal or vertical scroll bar. When this box is not checked, the view of the project on the screen is refreshed only after you stop moving the slider.

- “Display calculation results after changing project” – when this box is checked, calculation results are still displayed on the drawing even if data have been changed. Only the status icon changes to indicate that the project has been changed. When this box is not checked, calculation results disappear after each data change.

- Print options:

ˇ “Print on margins” – when this box is checked, the margins are available for printing. When this box is not checked, one letter in the text may be lost in the printout when page break is inserted in the middle of text.

ˇ "“Print page header vertically” – when this box is checked, page header (information on project name and page number) will be printed vertically on the left side of page instead of being printed horizontally in the upper left corner of page.

ˇ “Print page header on page 1 only” - when this box is checked, page header (information on project name and page number) will be printed on first page only.

ˇ “Print scissors – paper cutting lines” - when this box is checked, small scissors symbols will be printed to indicate location of page cutting.

ˇ “Print paper cutting lines” - when this box is checked, broken lines will be printed to indicate page cutting lines.

ˇ “Print numbers of adjacent pages” - when this box is checked, arrows and numbers of adjacent pages are printed on margin.

ˇ “Warn when trying to print without calculations” - when this box is checked, a warning will be displayed if you try to print a project which has not been calculated or which has been altered since last calculations have been done.

A button in the lower part of the window enables configuration of colour conversion table for exporting DWG/DXF files (to AutoCADŽ). Each colour displayed by the graphical editor can have a number assigned, corresponding to the colour used in AutoCADŽ. In addition, you can toggle on and off the use of Windows fonts in DWG/DXF files.

“Messages” tab:

- Here you can specify which of the warnings or hints are not to be displayed upon completing calculations. Message disabling applies to the entire editor, but it can be set at any time.

- A message can be disabled in the program settings or directly by pressing the right mouse button when the mouse pointer is over the message in the error list. Then select “Don’t show this message again”. The selected hint or warning will not be displayed the next time you start calculations.