Start Up Screen
- Becca Alford (Unlicensed)
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When you start the program, the first screen you see is the Startup Screen. Note that you will also see this screen when you select New File from the menu or tool bar.
An existing job can be opened by selecting “Open File” on the left or selecting recent job from the recent file list immediately below the Open File icon. A new job can be started by selecting one of the default problems listed for each type of analysis available in Eriksson Culvert in the main window to the right.
To open one of the default problem types, simply click on the icon. You cannot edit these default files, they are built into the program.
If you want to create some startup files of your own, first press the ‘Show File Explorer’ button at the top.
This will take you to the StartUp Files folder which is created for you by the installer (we will show you how to change which folder the program will use to look for startup files later in this tutorial).
You can save files to this folder which you can create using common parameters that you typically use in these types of designs. To do this, simply start with a default problem that we saw before (or start with a previously created startup file), make the changes you want, then save the file to the StartUp folder.
You can also browse to another folder pressing the buttons at the top of this screen or any of the folder icons that may be listed in the main window.
Press the ‘Default Files’ button to return to the default problem window we started with.
You can also select a file from the list of recent files displayed on the left hand side of this window. Or you can browse for a file by clicking on the Open File button, which brings up a standard Windows open file dialog box.
Lastly, you can set your own startup files path and the size of the icons in the main window by pressing the User Preferences button at the bottom left.