General settings
The General page and its subpages in the Settings dialog box allow you to configure the language, captions, autosave settings, confirmation messages, and updates in Tekla Structural Designer.
| Language | |
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Select the preferred language list |
Allows you to select the preferred language for the interface. Once changed, the program must be restarted for the new language to take effect.
Note:
The language cannot be configured differently in different settings sets. |
| Appearance | |
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Show captions on top |
Allows you to select whether you want to show captions on the top or the bottom of the Project Workspace. |
| Autorecover | |
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| Autosave | |
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Enabled |
Allows you to select whether Tekla Structural Designer creates automatic temporary saves of the model. Autosave may be useful, for example, when restarting Tekla Structural Designer after a crash. For more information, see: Work with autosave and backups |
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Interval |
Allows you to determine the interval at which Tekla Structural Designer creates automatic temporary saves of the model. |
| Backups | |
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Enabled |
Allows you to select whether Tekla Structural Designer creates automatic backups of the model. Backup may be useful, for example, if you want to revert to a previous version of the model. For more information, see: Work with autosave and backups |
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Interval |
Allows you to determine the interval at which Tekla Structural Designer creates automatic backups of the model. |
| Location | Allows you to define the backup Location directory - the default is your Windows user profile Documents directory. Click the link to browse to your preferred location (both local and network locations are allowed). |
| Maximum number of backups per project |
Allows you to define the maximum number of backups files to be kept on a project by project basis, (default = 10). When the limit is reached the older backups start to be automatically deleted. |
| Confirmations | |
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Confirm on list |
Allows you to select the operations that you want to confirm each time. |