Recently I’ve changed a couple of settings that make a huge difference on a day-to-day basis:
was notified about the automatic save state file compression through Tools > General > Compress new save files and result files
set up my editor in a pseudo dark mode through Tools > Editor and altering the background and syntax colours
What other top tips, setting changes or not-so-obvious functionality would others recommend utilising, which you take for granted once enabled?
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It is just a view setting so what is your question?
Changing the display settings will not be a problem.
Everyone probably knows this one already, but clicking on a command in a data file and hitting Ctrl-space to see the keywords is super-handy. Or hitting F1 to see the help.
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Use “Run Selection” to run a snippet of code from a data file. Right-click the selected code and choose “Run Selection” (Ctrl-Shift-E).
I also appreciate being able to use the up/down arrows when the command line is selected to scroll through recently typed (and run) commands.
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Did you know you can add custom colors to your model plots? Just select a color from the Color-List for a Plot-Item to bring up the color settings dialog. Then right-click one of the empty color boxes and enter the color’s Hex # or RGB code. You can also save this to your custom color list (before clicking OK) for future use.
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I just learned a new one. Fish function file.all . See here file.all — FLAC3D 7.0 documentation (itascacg.com)
You can dump a list to a file with a single line. For example, if you have a list of strings called lines , you can just do this:
[file.all(‘test.txt’,‘text’) = lines]
Even better, you can use splitting to easily dump out data. For example, if you want to dump all gridpoint pore pressures to a file, you can do this:
[file.all(‘test.txt’,‘text’) = gp.pp(::gp.list)]
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Would you please help me by providing a information that how to place my query/ question in this forum
jmswdmn
November 16, 2022, 3:10pm
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Read the instructions in the pinned welcome thread .
You need to supply a valid software license to be given access to create posts on the forum.
jmswdmn
February 4, 2025, 4:47pm
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Selfishly quoting these other threads here so I can find them again…
You can export all your arrayed split screen plots a single bitmap (PNG) by right-clicking on any plot, selecting Export, and then the Workspace to bitmap … option. You can specify the image size.
[workspace screenshot]
In FLAC3D and FLAC2D you can plot contours of gridpoint data (e.g. displacement) and zone groups, however there is currently no built-in way to show gridpoint labels (e.g. groups). However, you can do this by creating and plotting user-defined (UD) scalars. See simple example below.
model new
zone create brick
zone gridpoint group 'top' range pos-z 10
fish def plot_gps
loop foreach gp gp.list
uds = data.scalar.create(gp.pos(gp))
data.scalar.group(uds) = gp.group(gp)
end_loop
end
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A few tips & tricks for all you 3DEC v9 users:
(1) User-interface Information Box
In addition to the fixed Information display, you can use CTRL-Q to query object data via an information box in a plot that updates based on the cursor position. The query box can be frozen in place via CTRL-C, and if you prefer you can also copy the information from it.
[info box]
(2) Join by Contact
Use the BLOCK JOIN-BY-CONTACT command to prevent unjoining of construction joints when cutting across them to…