... 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 call the Style, Theme, and Settings the Styling.

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

MechDesigner uses the Styling automatically the next time it starts.

Styling Definitions:

Theme :

Border, Icon, and dialog colors.

Use Application Settings : General tab > Theme Settings  > Target Theme

Select one of these Themes:

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

This help uses Charcoal Dark Slate.

Style :

Load a Style

Click the button to open a Style

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

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

Save a Style

Click the button:

Save any changes you have made to Style file-name

Do NOT overwrite Dark.XML or Light.XML.

Application Settings :

Edit icon-sizes, number-formats and colors for different elements:

•Application-Settings > Graphics tab > Display Colors

There are many other settings you can make to suit your preferences.

Note: You can also save and load these with the Save and Load buttons

Note:

<CommonAppData> is usually C:\ProgramData\

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 Save button at the bottom of the dialog.

3.Save your styling. E.g.: <CommonAppData>\Style\My-style-name.XML

DO NOT OVERWRITE the styles that are already in this path.

Move your Styling

To move your styling to different computers

On the source workstation:

Save your styling - see preceding section. Remember, DO NOT OVERWRITE the files already in the style path.

1.Exit MechDesigner

2.Use File-Explorer to navigate to:

<CommonAppData>\PSMotion\style

3.Copy My-style-name.XML to a USB stick.

You also need to make copies of MechDesigner.INI and MechDesigner.XML.

4.Use File-Explorer to navigate to path: <LocalAppData> e.g.: C:\users\<user-name>\AppData\Local\PSMotion\IniFiles\

5.Copy MechDesigner.INI and MechDesigner.XML to the USB stick.

On the destination workstation:

1.Replace <LocalAppData>\Inifiles\MechDesigner.INI and MechDesigner.XML files on the workstation with the files on your USB stick

2.Copy and save My-style-name.XML on your USB stick to the path used for styling: <CommonAppData>\PSMotion\style

3.Start MechDesigner

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

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

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

The Theme, Style and Application-Settings are saved automatically as defaults. They load the next time you start MechDesigner.