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.
Button, command, or option | Description |
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Language subpage |
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Select the preferred language list |
Allows you to select whether the terms in the interface and the output are in US English or UK English. Note:
The language cannot be configured differently in different settings sets. |
Appearance page |
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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 subpage |
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Autosave | |
Enabled |
Allows you to select whether Tekla Structural Designer creates an automatic saves of models. Autosave may be useful, for example, when restarting Tekla Structural Designer after a crash. For more information, see: Work with autosave and backups |
Interval |
Allows you to determine the interval at which Tekla Structural Designer creates automatic saves of models. |
Backups | |
Enabled |
Allows you to select whether Tekla Structural Designer creates automatic backups of models. 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 |
Interval |
Allows you to determine the interval at which Tekla Structural Designer creates automatic backups of models. |
Location | Defines 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 | default = 10 (when the limit is reached the older backups start to be automatically deleted). |
Confirmation subpage |
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Confirm on list |
Allows you to select the operations that you want to confirm each time. |
Update Service subpage |
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Enable Update Service |
Allows you to select whether you want Tekla Structural Designer to notify you when new product updates or service packs can be installed, so that you can keep Tekla Structural Designer up to date. |
Check for updates when starting Tekla Structural Designer |
Allows you to select whether Tekla Structural Designer check if new updates are available each time it starts. |
Check for non critical updates every [n] days |
Allows you to determine the interval at which Tekla Structural Designer checks if new non-critical updates are available. |
Yes, I am willing to participate anonymously |
Allows you to select whether the Tekla Customer Experience Improvement Program can collect anonymous information on your hardware configuration and your use of Tekla products to improve the customer experience of Tekla products. |