General

The General Settings provide the possibility of customising the usability of the program to the user's likings and preferences.

Binary Output
When activated, the Binary Output option will lead to the creation of a binary file (*.srf) containing the output of the entire analysis.

Text Output
When activated, the Text Output option will lead to the creation, at the end of every analysis, of a text file (*.out) containing the output of the entire analysis (as given in the Step Output module). This feature may result useful for users who wish to systematically post-process the results using their own custom-made post-processing facility. For occasional access to text output, users are instead advised to use the facilities made availabe in the Step Output module.

At least one type of output, binary or text, should always be selected.

Multiple text Output
When activated, the Multiple Text Output option will lead to the creation of multiple text files (*.out), rather than a single one. This feature may result useful when large models are going to be analysed.

Display Warning Messages
When the Display Warning Messages option is activated, users are presented before the beginning of the analysis with warning messages about possible problems that might arise, e.g. convergence difficulties, loads acting on supports, parameters that seem unreasonable etc. The deactivation of the warning messages might prove really useful when running multiple analyses within the SeismoStruct Batch facility. By default this option is active.

Save Settings
The Save Settings option is used when the user wishes to always make the current project settings the default settings for every new project that is subsequently created. With this checkbox selected, any change in project settings will become a default, without the need for the Set as Default option to be used. Normally, this option is disabled so that the default settings are only changed if explicitly requested by the user (using the Set as Default option).

Allow single click
When selected, this option gives the program a web-style single click feel (as opposed to the more common double-click functioning standard).

Autosave every...
So as to protect users against accidental deletion of project files, SeismoStruct automatically creates a backup of the latter at user-specified time intervals (the default is 20 min). The backup files feature a *.bak extension. This facility can be disabled by setting a time interval equal to zero.