Preferences Settings
The Preferences Dialog Box
To make changes to how items are displayed throughout COMSOL edit the following settings in the Preferences dialog box as needed.
To open the Preferences dialog box:
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Windows users: From the File menu, select Preferences () You can also customize the Quick Access Toolbar and then click the button. See Windows Toolbars and Menus.
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Cross-platform (Mac and Linux) users: From the main menu select Options>Preferences ().
For some settings changes, a message window displays to tell you that COMSOL needs to be restarted for the changes to take effect. For each preference Settings window, you can click the Factory Settings button to restore the factory default values, or click Factory Settings for All to reset all the preferences to the factory default.
As shown in Figure 4-3, the following are available in the Preferences dialog box:
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Application Builder
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Application Libraries
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Client Server
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Email
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Files
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Forms
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General
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Geometry
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Graphics and Plot Windows
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Help
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LiveLink Connections
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Methods
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Model Builder
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Multicore and Cluster Computing
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Parametric Sweep
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Part Libraries
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Physics Builder
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Quick Access Toolbar
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Remote Computing
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Results
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Security
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Updates
Figure 4-3: The Preferences dialog box.
By default, most preference settings are migrated from the previous COMSOL Multiphysics version the first time that you start an instance of a new version of COMSOL Multiphysics. See Preference Migration for more information.