General Options: Desktop Performance Tab

The General > Desktop Performance options allow you to change settings for animation, pre/postprocessing, disk space warnings, and updating reports.

Report Update Options for Design Type:

If selected, report plots and overlays update dynamically.

Updating numerous reports may take a significant amount of time. Updating reports during the analysis process can impact the overall time to solution. You may want to vary the times when your reports get updated relative to the impact on overall solve time.

Five options exist for updating reports during solutions:

Animation

Computing animated plots requires significant memory that depends upon the complexity of the plot type. The animation setting is used to prevent problems related to low memory should an animation require large memory allocation.

The Animation setting lets you set a limit to Stop computing animation frames when available memory is less than the set value in megabytes. The default is 100.

Desktop Pre/Post Processing Settings:

The following preprocessing algorithms can take advantage of multiple processors:

Disk Space Warning

You can set a value to Warn when available disk space is less than the specified number of gigabytes.

When all information on the Desktop Performance panel is defined, select another option under General in the Options dialog or click OK to put your settings into effect.