Options: Managing Saved Properties

This panel lists the current saved properties status, in this example currently at state 2 of 2, and allows you to select a saved property state directly by number.

Clear all saved properties deletes all saved properties in memory.

Saved Attributes lets you control which components of a property are updated when you navigate to a saved property. All attributes are always saved , this controls what is updated when the property is restored .

• Blanking, Colour, Transparency, Plotting mode, Shading, Overlay and Explode vectors are all attributes of the items in a model.
  
  A saved property always contains all these attributes for all items in a model, regardless of whether or not they are currently visible. If items are added to the model after the property was saved their attributes will not be stored, since they weren't known about at the time of saving, so they will not be updated when the property is restored. (See below for further notes on the effects of changing model contents.)

• Entity and Label switches are the settings in the Entity panel and are model independent. A saved property contains the current status of all such switches for all possible item types, whether or not they are present in a given model.
  

• Viewing parameters are also model independent. The scale, orientation, location and perspective settings are stored.

Export to file... saving properties to file

The complete contents of either the current property state 0 only, or all saved property states, can be saved to an external properties file.

This is an ASCII (human-readable) file that is designed to be both programme and model independent, and its format is given below.

The next free filename in the sequence < jobname >_nnn.prp will be presented as the default name, but you are free to use any name. Extension " .prp " is recommended though for compatibility with other Oasys LS-DYNA Environment software.

Import from file... reloading properties from file

A previously saved file of properties can be reloaded into memory in this D3PLOT session, either replacing any existing properties or appending them to the current list.

The most recently created file in the sequence < jobname >_nnn.prp will be presented as the default filename and if, as here, no such file exists it will be listed on a red background and you will have to specify an alternative.