Display Setup palettes

SCIA Engineer uses a set of palettes to display project data (i) in the graphical window of the program, (ii) in the document window, and (iii) on an external graphical device. The palette comprises settings of:

It is possible to adjust separate palettes for individual output "directions". What’s more, it is possible to use settings from one palette for another one, i.e. load settings of one palette into the other one.

The available palettes are:

white background

Used for the screen, the structure is drawn in colours on white background.

black background

Used for the screen, the structure is drawn in colours on black background.

document – colour

Used for the document, the structure is painted in colours.

document – monochrome

Used for the document, the structure is painted in black-and-white style.

Important note: In order to have the pictures with result-isolines in the document black-and-white, it is necessary to have all the pens / brushes in the Setup dialogue set to black / white / grey colour. Otherwise, if even a single pen is set to any other colour, the whole output is made as coloured.

graphic output – colour

Used for the graphical output (paper space gallery), the structure is painted in colours.

graphic output – monochrome

Used for the graphical output (paper space gallery), the structure is painted in black-and-white style.

See the note in document – monochrome above.
The procedure for selection of palettes for individual output "directions"

  1. Open any of the following Setup dialogues (all of them can be found under function Setup of the main menu):

    1. Colours / lines,

    2. Fonts,

    3. Beam types.

    4. Dimension lines.

  2. At the top of the dialogue, select the tab corresponding to the "device" you want to adjust.

  3. In the combo box named Current palette select the required palette.

  4. If required, make any changes to the settings (see chapters Colours setup, Font setup, Beam type setup, Dimension line setup for more information).

  5. Confirm with [OK].

Loading and saving defined settings

Loading and saving settings for all the palettes at the same time

If required, you may use one the three buttons at the bottom edge of the dialogue to reload or save the settings for all the palettes used in the program.

Load program default settings

This option loads default settings as they were adjusted by the developer of the program.

Store user default setting

This option saves the current settings for all palettes as your personal settings.

Store user default setting

This option loads the settings that have been previously saved by means of the button described one line above.

Loading and saving settings for a separate palette

If required, you may use one the three buttons in the top part of tabs Screen, Document and Graphic output to reload or save the settings for the selected group of parameters. Each of the following buttons works just with one sub-tab of the main tabs, i.e. for example with tab Screen > Fonts, Document >Structural types, etc.

Load program default settings

This option loads settings for the current tab as were define by the manufacturer.

Store user default setting

This option saves the current settings as a user-defined default.

Load user default setting

This option reads the settings that have been previously saved with button Store user default setting.

Load settings from other palette

This option enables the user to load into the current tab settings from the corresponding tab of any other palette.

Convert colours to grey scale

This option converts the colours on the current tab into grey scale.

This option is not available for dimension lines.

Convert colours to black

This option converts all the colours on the current tab into black colour.

This option is not available for dimension lines.