... edit, save, and move my Styling

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... edit, save, and move my Styling

How to edit your Settings, Styles and Theme.

We can use the term “Styling” for the Style, Theme, and Settings.

Each time you exit MechDesigner, we save for you your Styling to MechDesigner.INI and MechDesigner.XML.

MechDesigner uses the Styling automatically the each it starts.

Styling Definitions:

Theme :

Border, Icon, and dialog colors

To select a Theme:

1.Edit menu > Application Settings : General tab > Theme Settings  > Target Theme

2.Select a theme from:

Windows, Charcoal Dark Slate, Aqua Light Slate, Windows10 Dark, Tablet Dark, Slate Classico, Windows10 Slate Gray, Windows 10.

This help uses Charcoal Dark Slate.

3.Exit and Restart MechDesigner.

Style :

To Load a Style

1.Click the button to open:

Dark.XML - use with dark themes, for example, Charcoal Dark Slate.

Light.XML - use with light themes, for example, Aqua Light Slate.

my-style-name.XML - a style you have saved previously.

To Save a Style

1.Click the button to save

2.Save the changes you have made to my-style-name.XML.

Do NOT overwrite Dark.XML or Light.XML.

Application Settings :

Other settings that become part of your Styling:

1.Application-Settings > Graphics tab > Display Colors

2.Edit icon-sizes, number-formats, and colors for different element types

Note:

<CommonAppData> is usually C:\ProgramData\PSMotion\

If you cannot see C:\ProgramData\ ... then, in Windows File Explorer©:

a)Click the View tab

b)Click the Hidden Items check-box in the Show/hide group-box.

Save your Styling

To save your styling:

1.Edit menu > Application-Settings : Click the button at the bottom of the dialog.

2.Save your styling to e.g.: <CommonAppData>\Style\my-style-name.XML

DO NOT OVERWRITE the Dark.XML or Light.XML styles in this path.

Move your Styling

To move your styling:

On the workstation with the “Styling” that you want to move:

1.Save your Styling - see above

2.Exit MechDesigner

3.Navigate to <CommonAppData>\PSMotion\style\

4.Copy and Paste to a memory stick or network drive: my-style-name.XML

5.Navigate to <LocalAppData> e.g. C:\users\<username>\AppData\Local\PSMotion\IniFiles\

6.Copy and Paste to a memory stick or network drive: MechDesigner.INI and MechDesigner.XML.

On the destination workstation:

1.Navigate to <LocalAppData> e.g. C:\users\<username>\AppData\Local\PSMotion\IniFiles\

2.Copy and Paste from the memory-stick or network drive: MechDesigner.INI and MechDesigner.XML

3.Navigate to <CommonAppData> e.g. C:\documents\ProgramData\PSMotion\style\

4.Copy and Paste from the memory stick or network drive: my-style-name.XML

Load the styling:

1.Start MechDesigner

2.Click Edit menu > Application-Settings : Click the button, at the bottom of the dialog.

3.Explore to <CommonAppData>\PSMotion\style\

4.Find and load My-style-name.XML

The Theme, Style and Settings are now the new “Styling”, which will load automatically as defaults.