The General tab of the Options dialog allows you to configure the system settings, the display colors used, modeling preferences, model import directory, the number of commonly used materials remembered and analysis option settings.
Dialog elements
- Measurement System
- Specifies whether the model is displayed in metric or US English units.
- Active units
- Specifies the units that are used to display the model.
- You can select either of the following units to display and work with your model:
- US English units-(Imperial) feet, inches.
- Metric units-Meters, millimeters.
- Commonly used materials list
- Specifies the number of commonly used materials that will be displayed in the Commonly used materials window of the Select Material dialog.
- Number of materials to remember
- Click the up and down arrows to specify the number of commonly used materials that are stored in the Select Material dialog, or type the number into the box provided. The maximum is 99 materials.
Note: The Add material to commonly used list after selecting check box in the Select Material dialog must be selected in order to remember commonly used materials.
- Currency
- Allows you to specify the type of currency that is used in the Cost Adviser section of the results.
- Currency symbol
- You can change the unit of money that is used in the Cost Adviser. Use the drop-down list to select a unit of currency.
- Memory/Performance
- Select whether to Cache memory, recycle memory for maximum performance.
This option is not selected by default.
Select this option if you want the CPU to cache and recycle memory resources for use by this application. This can improve the performance of this application because the computer does not have to repeat memory resource allocation tasks for subsequent operations by this application.
Cached memory is not readily available to other applications that may be running concurrently on the computer, so the performance of other applications may be negatively affected when this option is selected.
Note: The performance effects are most noticeable on 32-bit systems, which have more limited memory resources.