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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)
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It's possible to change this options by clicking on
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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] [-h] [-p problem] [-e cmd] [-n] [-n2] [-c][-c2] [filename]
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 other 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.