How to Save User Preferences
If you have preferences for Superview IV Results environment display options (such as the appearance
of boundary conditions, forces, pressures and other FEA properties; part and
mesh coloration; results displayed as lines or boxes; etc.), you can adjust both
the current model properties and the default settings according to your needs by
using the "Tools:Options..." command sequence (Figure 1) to access the
"Options" dialog (Figure 2).

Figure 1: The "Tools" drop-down menu. |

Figure 2: The "Superview" tab in the "Options"
dialog. |
Click on the "Superview" tab in the "Options" dialog to
access buttons for changing "Global FEA Objects Preferences...",
"Individual FEA Objects Settings...", "Part And Mesh Color
Preferences..." and "Results Preferences...". Each button opens a
dialog enabling you to change the current model settings, default settings or
both.
The "Global FEA Objects Preferences" dialog (Figure 3) provides
toggles for hiding all FEA objects, slider controls for setting the display size
of FEA objects and toggles for defining arrow directions.
Use the "Individual FEA Objects Preferences" dialog (Figure 4) to
control the appearance of specific FEA objects including boundary conditions,
forces, lumped masses and pressures. You can select each FEA object's display
color, choose to display it or not using the "Show" toggles and, for
some objects, use the "Magnitude scaling factor" slider control or
entry field to specify the display scale.

Figure 3: The "Global FEA Objects Preferences" dialog. |
Figure 4: The "Individual FEA Objects Preferences" dialog. |
The "Part And Mesh Color Preferences" dialog (Figure 5) provides
options for using default part colors or user-specified colors for part, primary
mesh and secondary mesh coloration.
Choices for displaying results as lines or boxes on line-based elements and
fields for indicating the size of the lines or boxes are included in the
"Results Preferences" dialog (Figure 6).
Figure 5: The "Part And Mesh Color Preferences" dialog. |
Figure 6: The "Results Preferences" dialog. |
For more information about saving user preferences in the Superview IV Results environment, see the
ALGOR User's Guide.
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