General User Options

The General User Options contains user-specific settings. Such as the default dictionary and also the delete files options.


Where to find the General User options:

The General User options are located in the CUSTOMTOOLS User Options.

Select the desired CUSTOMTOOLS product from the CUSTOMTOOLS Products box to display the further and the product specific instructions to find the General User options.

CUSTOMTOOLS Products:


General user options:

Dictionary default language Selects the default language to be used from the dictionary.
Select the user interface language Determines the user interface language used in CUSTOMTOOLS products. Languages available in this box depends on what languages you installed to CUSTOMTOOLS.
Delete files permanently Enable/disable deleting files without using the Recycle Bin.

When you change the User interface language of CUSTOMTOOLS, all running CUSTOMTOOLS products needs restart in to reload the localization modules and apply the language change to the user interface. In case you change the language by using the SOLIDWORKS add-in of CUSTOMTOOLS, then you need to restart SOLIDWORKS to apply the CUSTOMTOOLS user interface language change.



Search results:

Insert wildchar automatically to search conditions Allows CUSTOMTOOLS to add a Wild-Card Characters to both ends of the search keyword.

The wild-card characters are not visible for the user even if CUSTOMTOOLS is allowed to add them.
Maximum number of rows shown in the search result list Limits the number of visible rows in the search results.
Nested view The search results are shown by the parent-child way where the document itself is a parent document and its configurations are shown as the child documents.
  Expand documents in search results to show configurations The search results are automatically expanded in the Search Results dialog box that is used to show the search results.

Flat view Shows one row per each found document configuration in the search results.
  Show only one configuration per file Only one configuration from each file is shown in the search results.


Reset Command Manager:

Reset Command Manager Use the Reset Command Manager button to reset the CUSTOMTOOLS tab in the SOLIDWORKS Command manager back to default.
Info NOTE: The Reset Command Manager button is enabled only when maintaining CUSTOMTOOLS options in SOLIDWORKS.



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Related Topics

Setup CUSTOMTOOLS options in relation to the File Operations
Messages/Errors/Warnings

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