Preference 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 main categories are available in the Preferences dialog box:
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Application Builder
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Client–Server
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Computing
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Email
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Files
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Geometry
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Graphics
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Help
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Libraries
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LiveLink Connections
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Mesh
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Model Builder
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Model Manager
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Physics Builder
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Results
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Save
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Security
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Updates
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User Interface
Most of these main items have subbranches for related settings within the main category. At the top of the Preferences dialog box, click the Expand All button () to expand all branches to show all subbranches. Click the Collapse All button () to only show the main categories.
Figure 4-3: The Preferences dialog box.
Click the Factory Settings button that is available on each page to restore the settings on that page to the factory settings. Click the Factory Settings for All to restore all preference settings to the factory settings (the default values for the preferences when the software was installed).