UTILITIES, SETTINGS_FILE

UTILITIES, SETTINGS_FILE

The "settings" file (extension .set ) stores programme and window status information.

Its purpose is to allow you to define a screen layout that is model-independent, and to revert to that layout with minimum effort.

The settings file stores the number of graphics windows, and for each window:

• The current view.
• The background, text and hidden infill colours.
• The current ENTITY and LABEL settings.
• The current data component information and plotting mode.
• The current contouring settings and colours.
• Any cut-section data.
• Any fixed node, shift deformed and reference data.
• Lighting and shading information.
• Most DISPLAY_OPTIONS settings.
• Other miscellaneous data.

Reading in a settings file will optionally open further windows if the number currently present is less than that in the file, then apply the stored settings to all the windows in the display.