Default folders

For Open Checks within SCIA Engineer, two different folders are used by default: a 'System folder' and a 'User folder'. In general these folders can be written as follows:

System Folder: "C:\Program Files (x86)\SCIA\EngineerXXXX.X\OpenChecks\"

The first directory refers to the installation folder of SCIA Engineer. This folder contains Checks which are set as "System Checks" and provided by SCIA. This folder is fixed and cannot be changed. When installing a new version of SCIA Engineer the content of this folder can be completely changed or removed.

User Folder: "C:\Users\#USER#\Documents\ESAXX.X\OpenChecks\"

The second folder is created in the user's profile of Windows. This folder is created when starting SCIA Engineer for the first time and contains all Checks created by the user.

This folder can be modified from within SCIA Engineer through Setup > Options > Directories.

The logic of having two separate folders is the following: Any checks created by the user are stored in the 'User folder'. This folder remains untouched when installing a new version of SCIA Engineer. Data of this folder can thus easily be used also in other versions. In addition the path of this folder can be modified to a more convenient location or for example to a common network path etc.

In order to structure different Checks subfolders can be used, for example a subfolder for Steel Checks, a subfolder for Concrete Checks etc.