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ANSYS Start File

This document contains sample commands that can be included in a START.ANS file to customize the ANSYS startup settings. It includes commands to turn off certain graphics options, set the toolbar abbreviations, and control which GUI components appear at startup. The comments explain what each command does and provide examples of customizing the toolbar, adding additional toolbars, and setting the material library path.

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ANSYS Start File

This document contains sample commands that can be included in a START.ANS file to customize the ANSYS startup settings. It includes commands to turn off certain graphics options, set the toolbar abbreviations, and control which GUI components appear at startup. The comments explain what each command does and provide examples of customizing the toolbar, adding additional toolbars, and setting the material library path.

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/UIS,POWER,OFF !

Turns off Power Graphics


ABBRES,NEW,'jeff','tool','d:\jeff\' ! Use my toolbar
/MSTART,ZOOM,ON ! Displays Pan-Zoom-Rotate dialog box
/MSTART,WORK,ON ! Displays Offset Working Plane dialog box
/MSTART,WPSET,ON ! Displays Working Plane Settings dialog
box
/PLOPTS,LEG2,OFF ! Turn off view portion of legend
/PLOPT,FRAME,OFF ! Turn off window frame
/PLOPT,MINM,OFF ! Turn off min-max symbols
/PLOPT,DATE,OFF ! Turn off date and time
/TRIAD,LBOT ! Display triad at bottom left
!*****************************************************************************
!
! Sample START.ANS file provided by Ansys, Inc.
! for the ANSYS Program
! 8/07/2002
!
! All of the commands included in this file are commented. If you want to
! have any command executed at ANSYS start-up, simply remove the ! from the
! beginning of the line.
!
!
!/NOPR ! Suppresses printout of the START.ANS file
!
!
! Suggested ANSYS abbreviations for the Toolbar:
!
!*ABBR,REPLOT ,/REPLOT ! Replots the last graphics display
!*ABBR,ISO ,/VIEW,,1,1,1 ! Changes the view to isometric
!*ABBR,FRONT ,/VIEW,,0,0,1 ! Changes the view to front view
!*ABBR,VECTOR ,/DEVICE,VECT,ON ! Specifies vector mode for graphics displays
!*ABBR,RASTER ,/DEVICE,VECT,OFF ! Specifies raster mode for graphics displays
!*ABBR,NOERASE ,/NOERASE ! Does not erase the screen between plots
!*ABBR,ERASE ,/ERASE ! Erases the screen between plots
!*ABBR,HID_LINE,Fnc_Pl_Hidden ! Brings up dialog box for hidden-line options
!*ABBR,INFO-ON ,/PLOPTS,INFO,ON ! Turn the legend information on
!*ABBR,INFO-OFF,/PLOPTS,INFO,OFF ! Turn the legend information off
!*abbr,RESU_ABR,Fnc_ABBRESU ! Brings up a dialog box to read an
! abbreviation file
!
!
! The next abbreviations are system-dependent:
!
! To invoke a system editor:
!*ABBR,SYS_EDIT,/SYS,xterm -title 'ANSYS vi_Editor' -e vi & ! UNIX
!*ABBR,SYS_EDIT,/SYS,start notepad ! Windows-NT
!
! To bring up a system calculator:
!*ABBR,CALCULAT,/SYS,xcalc -stipple -geom -0+0 & ! UNIX
!*ABBR,CALCULAT,/SYS,start calc ! Windows-NT
!*ABBR,CALCLTR ,/SYS,xhpcalc -geom -0+0 & ! HP
!
!
! It is possible to have multiple toolbars by having different abbreviation
! files. (The files must be available in a directory on your system.) The way
! to access them is to have the following type of abbreviations defined INSIDE
! the initial (main) abbreviation file.
!
!*ABBR,MAINTBAR,ABBRESUM,NEW,MAINTBAR,ABBR ! Restores the main Toolbar
!*ABBR,GRPHTBAR,ABBRESUM,NEW,GRPHTBAR,ABBR ! Restores a Toolbar customized
! for graphics manipulations
!*ABBR,POSTTBAR,ABBRESUM,NEW,POSTTBAR,ABBR ! Restores a Toolbar customized
! for postprocessing
!
!
! There are five predefined ANSYS abbreviations in the Toolbar. The following
! commands can be used to remove them (by removing the exclamation point).
!
!*ABBR, SAVE_DB
!*ABBR, RESUM_DB
!*ABBR, QUIT
!*ABBR, POWRGRPH
!*ABBR, E-CAE
!
! Once the commands are turned off per above, they can be turned back
! on again in a different order by the following commands (remove the !).
!
!*ABBR, SAVE_DB , SAVE
!*ABBR, QUIT , Fnc_/EXIT
!*ABBR, RESUM_DB, RESUME
!*ABBR, E-CAE, SIMUTIL
!*ABBR, POWRGRPH, Fnc_/GRAPHICS

! An abbreviation can be added to bring up your web browser with www.ansys.com


! by adding the following command
!*ABBR, ANSYSWEB, Fnc_HomePage
!

! Initial ANSYS parameters:


!PI=ACOS(-1)
!
!

! The /MSTART command controls which GUI components initially appear


! at program start-up.
!
!/MSTART,MAIN,OFF ! Suppresses Main Menu (ON by default)
!/MSTART,INPUT,OFF ! Suppresses Input Window (ON by default)
!/MSTART,GRPH,OFF ! Suppresses Graphics Window (ON by default)
!/MSTART,TOOL,OFF ! Suppresses Toolbar (ON by default)
!/MSTART,UTIL,OFF ! Suppresses Utility Menu (ON by default)
!
!/MSTART,ZOOM,ON ! Displays Pan-Zoom-Rotate dialog box
!/MSTART,WORK,ON ! Displays Offset Working Plane dialog box
!/MSTART,WPSET,ON ! Displays Working Plane Settings dialog box
!/MSTART,ABBR,ON ! Displays Edit Abbreviations dialog box
!/MSTART,PARM,ON ! Displays Scalar Parameters dialog box
!/MSTART,SELE,ON ! Displays Select Entities dialog box
!/MSTART,ANNO,ON ! Displays Annotation dialog box
!/MSTART,HARD,ON ! Displays Hard Copy dialog box
!/MSTART,HELP,ON ! Displays ANSYS Help System
!
! The /MPLIB command controls the default path used to find and display
! the material library files.
!
! UNIX example:
!/MPLIB,READ,/ansys_inc/v161/ansys/matlib
!
! PC example:
! NOTE: Pathname must be enclosed in SINGLE quotes
!/MPLIB,READ,'C:\Program Files\Ansys Inc\v161\ansys\matlib'
!
!/GOPR ! Activates the printout previously suppressed by /NOPR
!
!/UIS,BORD,1,2,3 ! Sets Dynamic mode button order to default
! (left= 1,center= 2,right= 3)
! Button 1 is xy translate in dynamic mode
! Button 2 is zoom and rotate about view vector
! Button 3 is rotate about x or y axis
!
! *********************** End of sample START.ANS file ***********************

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