Accessing Preferences

You can access any preference by choosing File Preferences from the main menu at the top of the Softimage window.

Expand or collapse folders to show or hide more categories.

Select a folder name to summarize preferences in a grid on the right as shown.

Select a category name to dock its property editor on the right (not shown).

Click a category icon to open its property editor in a floating window.

NoteYou can also set the scope of an explorer to Preferences.

Setting Preferences

Any preferences that you set are stored in default.xsipref in the Data\Preferences sub folder of your user path, and reloaded the next time you start Softimage.

To set preferences

Open the Preferences window by choosing File Preferences from the main menu.
Select a category of preferences in the left pane by doing one of the following:
- Click a category name to display it in the right pane.
  
  or
- Click a category icon to display it in a floating property editor.
Set the desired values.

For a detailed description of every option, click ?.