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 (macOS and Linux) users: From the main menu select Options>Preferences ().
For some settings changes, a message window displays to tell you that COMSOL Multiphysics 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.
The preferences are saved when you close the Preferences dialog box and when you exit COMSOL Desktop.
As shown in Figure 4-3, the following categories are available in the Preferences dialog box:
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Add-in Libraries
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Application Builder
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Application Libraries
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Client/Server
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Color Themes
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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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Graphics Interaction
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Graphics Toolbars
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Help
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LiveLink Connections
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Mesh
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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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Reports and Presentations
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Results
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Security
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Show More Options
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Updates
Figure 4-3: The Preferences dialog box.