INVOKING GiD |
When installing GiD on Windows, the useful way is to start GiD from desktop icon
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There is also added a direct access from the programs list of the start menu.
An special option is to start 'GiD safe mode', then a window will be open to ask the user to select how to handle OpenGL graphics: by software or by hardware (some graphic cards and drivers have problems with the hardware option, the screen can show corrupted images or even GiD can crash)
When starting the GiD program from a shell or script it is possible to supply several options in the same command line.
With
gid -help
the program will list the possible command line options.
Command line syntax:
gid [-b[{+/-}g][{+/-}i][{+/-}w] batchfile] [-t tcl_command] [filename] [-h] [-p problem] [-e cmd] [-n] [-n2] [-c][-c2]
All options and filename are optional. filename is the name of a problem to be opened (the .gid extension is optional).
Options are:
example:
gid -t "WarnWinText [GiD_Info Project]" C:\temp\myexample
Note: by default, when running a batch file from the command line or importing a Batch file from the 'Files->Import' menu, graphics are disabled, and then for example is not possible to save an snapshot in a file. To enable graphic features use gid -b+g batchfile
On the oher hand when reading a file with the Read batch window graphics are enabled.
Other useful options are:
gid -compress [ -123456789ad] file_name_in file_name_out
in order to compress (gzip) a file, e.g. to compress '.dat' files or new postprocess formatted data files.
And:
gid [ -PostBinaryFormat { 1.0 / 1.1}] -PostResultsToBinary file_in file_out
in order to transform ASCII results files into compressed binary ones. You can select whether to use the binary format 1.0 or 1.1. The default format (recommended) is 1.1.