General tab
The General tab of the Preferences dialog box contains the following options:
| Option | Explanation |
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Launch on system startup Enabled by default. | This causes the Simulation Compute Manager (SCM) to start automatically when the local workstation is turned on. It is good practice to leave this option enabled so that schedule jobs can resume immediately. If this option is turned off, the SCM will start when you start the Autodesk Simulation product. |
Block sleep mode during file transfers Enabled by default. | This option prevents the local workstation from entering sleep mode while file transfers, to or from the cloud, are in progress. |
Show tasks Disabled by default. | When running solutions on the cloud, files are uploaded to the cloud, and the results are downloaded to the computer after solving. The Upload, Solve, and Download stages are indicated in the Status column of the List view when this option is enabled. Expand the Solve line to see the additional task data. Uploading and downloading tasks do not occur for local solutions. Therefore, the Show tasks option does not provide any additional useful information when solving a model locally. |
Number of days to show finished jobs (Default = 7 | Jobs launched within this time period are listed under the Complete heading of the SCM user interface. Increase or decrease this value to show more or fewer jobs, respectively. |
| Refresh rate in seconds Default = 5 | While jobs are running, information on the job status and progress is updated at this refresh rate. Increase this value to devote more processing time to the solution and less to updating the job status. When running solutions locally, network traffic from status updates is not a concern. Also, processor time needed for updating the job status is minimal. The default refresh rate works well in most cases. |
| Number of seconds to show a notification Default = 10 | This is the amount of time that Notification messages are displayed on the screen. You can use this parameter to increase or decrease the display time of the Notification message. |
| Number of seconds to delay file transfer at startup Default = 5 This setting is only relevant when solutions are run in the cloud | If a pending file transfer resumes immediately following a Windows® startup, network errors may occur . These errors are often due to a delay in the initialization of the relevant network drivers and connections controlled by Windows®. Use this value to delay when the Simulation Compute Manager starts data transfers after the system is first started and thereby avoid network errors. |