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Wire Frame Graphics Codec
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User Interface, Printing and Exporting
Run-length encoding is the default setting and is usually the best choice. This codec offers good compression rates
for OrcaFlex wire frame video. The AVI files produced using this codec can be played on most Windows PCs.
If you choose Uncompressed then each frame of the video is stored as an uncompressed bitmap. This means that
the AVI file produced can be extremely large.
Output Preferences
Printer Margins
These set the Left and Top margins used on printouts.
Monochrome Output
If this is checked then external output (copying to the clipboard, exporting metafiles and printing) is in black and
white. This is useful with black and white printers, since otherwise pale colours may be drawn in very light grey and
may be hard to see.
Messages Preferences
A number of OrcaFlex warning messages can be disabled by checking Don't show this message again on the warning
message form. Once a message has been disabled, it will not be shown again. These messages can be re-enabled by
checking the appropriate box on this page.
Miscellaneous Preferences
Show Splash Screen
Determines whether OrcaFlex displays its splash screen when the program starts.
Batch Auto Save
If this is enabled then simulations run in batch mode are automatically stored to simulation files at the specified
regular Auto Save Interval. This is useful if your computer is prone to failure (for example because of overnight
power failures) since the part-run simulation file can be loaded and continued, rather than having to re-run the
whole simulation from scratch. The Auto Save Interval should be neither too short, since then the program will then
waste a lot of time repeatedly storing away the results, nor too long, since then a lot of simulation work will be lost if
a failure occurs.
3.16 PRINTING AND EXPORTING
The Print / Export form is accessed using either the File | Print or the File | Export menu item and allows you to
choose one or more of the following items to be printed or saved to file:
� The model data. Vessel Types often have very large amounts of data, much of which may not apply to the
current model, so OrcaFlex offers you the option of printing all the vessel type data or only the data that is in
use.
� Any 3D Views, Graphs, Spreadsheets and Text Windows currently on display.
Note: Graphs are printed as large as possible whilst maintaining aspect ratio.