Preferences

General

Show splash screen at startup

Show splash screen when the application starts.

Show export options dialog

Show text labels under the ribbon icons.

Show import options dialog

Scale icons up in size if screen resolution is more than 2000 pixels for at least one dimension.

Show icon labels

Show text labels under the ribbon icons.

Scale UI

Scale icons up in size if screen resolution is more than 2000 pixels for at least one dimension.

Theme

Select a color theme for the interface.

Language

Select a language for the interface.

Attention: After changing the language, restart the application for the modification to take effect.

Recent files

Change the number of recently viewed files displayed in the File menu.

Selection

Coincident picking

Activate the coincident picking tool when selecting coincident entities.

Supported entities: nodes, elements, loads and systems.

Pick tolerance

Change the maximum distance, in pixels, the cursor can be from a graphical entity in order to select it.

Model Control

Allow off-screen rotation

Keep the center of rotation in the same location even if that center is moved off the screen.

Rotate angle

Change the angle, in degrees, used to rotate the model with the arrow keys.

Zoom factor

Change the multiplication factor used to zoom in/out on the model.

General

Mesh

Geometry

Display

Selection

Tolerance

Cleanup tolerance

Change the default tolerance used to automatically cleanup geometry data when performing geometry creation and cleanup operations.

Face Selection

Geometry feature angle

When entities are selected by face, attached adjacent surfaces are progressively selected as long as the feature angle between them is less than or equal to the mesh feature angle

This angle is also used to detect features on geometry import.

Geometry Creation

Auto-stitching

Select a method for stitching newly created surfaces to the model.

Within same component

Stitch created surfaces to neighboring surfaces that belong to the same component.

Across any component

Stitch created surfaces to all neighboring surfaces.

From attached to selection

Stitch created surfaces to surfaces attached to selected surfaces/edges.

From selection only

Stitch created surfaces to selected surfaces, or surfaces that have edges or vertices selected.

Display

Surface lines

Change the default number of dashed lines to draw on new surfaces when they are displayed with surface lines on.

Selection

Default size

Change the default edge length for elements created when meshing.

Element size will be in the same units that the loaded model was created in (mm, inches, and so on).

Tolerance

Node cleanup tolerance

Auto adjust node tolerance based on element size.

Node tolerance

Change the tolerance used to maintain finite element data in the model.

Note: Any two nodes are considered to be coincident if the distance between them is less than the node tolerance.

Face Selection

Mesh feature angle

When entities are selected by face, attached adjacent elements are progressively selected as long as the feature angle between them is less than or equal to the mesh feature angle.

This angle will also effect automatic mesh cleanup.

Advanced

Element order

Select whether to create mid-edge nodes on elements when meshing.

First

Create elements using corner nodes only.

Second

Create elements using corner and mid-edge nodes.

Treatment to connected mesh

Select how newly created elements and any adjacent existing elements are connected.

Element organization

Select which component the newly created elements are placed in.

Topology revision

Select a remeshing method for revising modified topology.

Keep mesh

Keep existing mesh.

Delete mesh

Delete existing mesh.

Remesh

Remesh using default values.

Note: Node/surface associativity is not always retained, resulting in orphanded elements.

Advanced remesh

Remesh, while maintaing node associations with surfaces.

Allow duplicate IDs

Check this box to permit properties in different groups to have the same ID.

Duplicate properties cannot exist in the same group.

Mixed property warning

Show a warning when components contain both direct and indirectly assigned properties.

Retain loads and BCs

Check this box to not automatically delete loads and boundary conditions that are applied to nodes when remeshing.

Axes

Global X

Pick a color to display the X global axis vector.

Global Y

Pick a color to display the Y global axis vector.

Global Z

Pick a color to display the Z global axis vector.

Label

Pick a color to display axis labels.

Surface Edges

Free

Pick a color to display surface edges that do not connect to other surfaces.

Shared

Pick a color to display surface edges that connect to two surfaces.

T-Junctions

Pick a color to display edges shared by three or more surfaces.

Suppressed

Pick a color to display shared edges that have been manually suppressed so that the automesher treats the shared surfaces as if they were one surface, allowing elements to cross the edge as if it were not there at all.

3D Solid Edges

3D Solid Faces

Partial split

Pick a color to display surfaces that partially split 3D solid entities.

Bounding faces

Pick a color to display the outer faces of solid entities.

Partition faces

Pick a color to display the faces of adjoined solids.

2D surfaces

Pick a color to display 2D faces that are not part of solids.

Ignored faces

Pick a color to display 2D faces.

Component edges

Pick a color to display mesh edges when the geometry visualization mode is set to by comp.

Mappable

Ignore

Pick a color to display solids that require partitioning to become mappable.

Not mappable

Pick a color to display solids that have been modified, but still require further partitioning to create mappable solids.

1 direction mappable

Pick a color to display solids that can be mapped in one direction for 3D meshing.

3 direction mappable

Pick a color to display solids that can be mapped in three directions for 3D meshing.

Elements

Mesh line

Pick a color to display the lines of mesh, which indicate the edges of mesh elements.

No Prop/Mat

Pick a color to display elements that do not have properties or materials assigned to them.

Elements can be assigned properties and materials directly, or they can be inherited from the collectors the elements reside in.

Plies

Link color and orientation

Auto update colors based on ply orientation.

0

Pick a color to display plies having an orientation angle of 0.

90

Pick a color to display plies having an orientation angle of 90.

45

Pick a color to display plies having an orientation angle of 45.

-45

Pick a color to display plies having an orientation angle of -45.

Other

Pick a color to display plies having an orientation angle other than -45, 0, 45, 90.

Undo/Redo

Number of undo actions

Change the number of undo/redo actions that can consecutively be performed.

Maximum undo memeory (MB)

Change the maximum amount of memeory that can be used for undo/redo operations.

Display

Geometry faceting

Select a level of refinement level to control how smooth curved surfaces and lines display when closely zoomed in.

Note: The degree of faceting is arbitrarily numbered from 1 to 5, with 5 being the most refined and 1 being the coarsest. Higher values may affect rendering performance. Select Auto to automatically increase the geometry resolution when zooming in on a model.

Hover highlighting

Highlight entities on mouse hover.

Model Rotation

View simplification

Select a model element to produce a smoother animation of when rotating and panning the model.

The calculation and rendering of the model element will be abstained until the model stops moving.

Dynamic center of rotation

Dynamic center during model rotation.

Simplify current component

Retain full detail of the current component during view simplification.

Check this box to apply the view simplification to the current component, along with the other components.

Hide handles during rotation

Auto hide element handles during model rotation.

Debug

Write to command file

Check this box off to disable writing each command to the command.tcl file.

Display information message

Check this box to display information messages in the status bar while a script is running.

Display error messages

Check this box to display error messages in the status bar while a script is running.

Entity highlighting

Highlight entities in the modeling window upon selection while a script is running.

Graphics redraw

Check this box to redraw graphics while a script is still running.

Guide Bar

Options dialog

Options docked state.

Connectors

Size

Change the display size, in model units, of connectors.

Color by

Select a color scheme to define how connectors are color-coded.

Colors cannot be changed for each item, but clearing the box next to each item turns its display off.

Display cylinder bolts

Show cylinder bolts.

Cylinder transparency

Adjust the level of transparency for cylinder bolts.

Display CWELDS

Show a graphical representation of the CWELD definition.

Constraints

Labels

Show constraint labels.

Size

Change the display size, in model units, of constraints.

Elements

Show element handle

Show element labels and handles.

Show equation handle

Change the display size of handles on equations.

Shrink factor

Change the shrink factor used to draw elements.

A shrink size of zero draws each element so that its corners directly connect to its nodes. A shrink size greater than zero scales the element by the specified value about its centroid so that its corners do not appear to touch its nodes. The shrink size must be between 0 and 1.

Geometry

Show line handle

Show free line handles.

Handles

Lines

Loads

Show load handle

Show load labels.

Show load magnitude

Show labels on load entities.

Supported loads: forces, moments, pressures, accelerations, velocities, temperatures, fluxes.

Arrow position

Select which end of the load line to display load arrow.

Scaling Options

Set new scaling options.

Base size

Change the base size of loads.

Scale type

Set scale type fixed or limits on load entities.

Minimum Size

Change the minimum size of loads.

Maximum Size

Change the maximum size of loads.

Morphing

Show domain handle

Show domain handles.

Handle Size

Change the display size, in model units, of morphing handles.

Symmetry size

Change the display size, in model units, of morphing symmetries.

Volume edge points

Change the number of points each morph volume edge will use to represent curves.

Use larger numbers for smoother curves, and smaller numbers for faster rendering.

Volume face transparency

Select the level of transparency to display flat faces of morph volumes.

Wireframe

Only the morph volume edges and handles display.

Transparent

Faces display semi-opaque.

Opaque

Morph volumes' transparency is set to zero.

Colors

Domains

Pick a color to display morph domains.

Faces

Pick a color to display morph faces.

Morph Volumes

Pick a color to display morph volumes.

Symmetries

Pick a color to display morph symmetries.

Post

Scale

Systems

Size

Change display size, in model units, of systems.

Tags

Push tags to foreground

Push all of the active tags to the foreground of the modeling window.

If the entity the tag is attached to is visible, the tag will also display. If the entity is not visible, the tag will be hidden.

Text

Select the type of text to display along with tags.

Icon

Select how tags display.

Topology

Solid transparency

Adjust the transparency level of solid entities.

Triad

Show global axes

Display the global xyz axis.

Vectors

Show vector handles

Show handles on vector entities.

Show labels

Show labels on vector entities.

Size

Vector size.

Automatic

Vector size is set automatically.

Percentage

Size as a percentage of the vector value.

Uniform

Vector size is uniform

Value

The display size of vector entities.

Plots

General

Presets

Select whether to use HyperWorks X or Legacy mouse controls.

Auto append selection

Always add to the current selection in idle mode without holding Ctrl.

Reverse zoom direction

Reverse scroll wheel direction.