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Table of Contents
10.1. Settings
10.2. Tools
10.3. Plugins
10.4. Show Log File
10.5. Translate
10.6. Install demo license
The settings for Fonts, Mouse, Keyboard, etc., can be changed from Utilities > Settings >
Set the text of different global controls/graphics:
- Control- Changes the text fonts of the OpendTect window.
- Graphics large/medium/small- Changes the fonts of large/medium/small graphics within certain windows e.g. survey box.
- Small/Large Controls- Changes the fonts of small/large controls within specific windows e.g. the small controls (the text describing inline/crossline/Z-ranges or bin size) of survey selection window.
Clicking any of the function buttons will pop up a standard font-selection window.
Standard font selection window
The Look and Feel option is used to change standard settings of OpendTect icon size, color bar orientation, toggling shading & volume rendering on/off.
Set mouse button functions. System administrators can implement user-defined mouse button actions. See the Application Management Documentation for details.
Define custom keyboard shortcuts to move slice forward/backward. Set either one key (set first key to no-button) or a combine control/shift key with another key of choice from the list.
The ADVANCED user settings changes the default settings of specific keywords. Specify settings and/or setup or edit the Survey default settings.
The settings can be found in the .od/ directory from the user home directory. Depending on the platform used, this is located in:
- /home/username/.od for Linux users
- root > Documents and Settings > username>.od in Windows 2000, XP and 2003
- root > Users > username >.od in Windows Vista and 7
- Users > username > .od for Mac users
To list the type of current Personal and/or Survey settings, type l ~/.od/*DTECT_USER* in Linux console.
The following files are used to store the Personnal settings:
- settings.DTECT_USER: File is used to setup Personal settings
- settings_coltabs.DTECT_USER: File is used to edit colorbar display properties
- settings_snapshot.DTECT_USER: File allows the user to edit the snapshot properties like resolution, height, width etc ..
- settings_flatview.DTECT_USER: File enables the user to edit the 2D viewer properties like Variable Density, Wiggle Variable Area.
- settings_welldisp.DTECT_USER: File enables the user to edit the well display properties
- settings_welltie.DTECT_USER: File is used to edit the Well to Seismic tie properties like Velocity/Density names, Wavelet ID etc..
- qtsettings.DTECT_USER: File will allow the user to edit the QT properties
- settings_3DPSViewer.DTECT_USER: File will allow the user to edit the 3D PreStack viewer properties
- settings_GMT.DTECT_USER: File will allow the user to edit the GMT properties
- survey.DTECT_USER: File is used to edit the Default Survey. Typing cds from a linux console will bring the user back to his/her default survey
Update Personal Settings by specifying a keyword (a variable name) and its value. The list pops up by pressing the Select existing button in the Set Personal Settings dialog (see below). A brief description on the available variables (and the values) is given below:
Note: Most of the changes are updated after restarting the OpendTect, other are activated instantly.
Pre-defined Keywords:
Press Select existing button to bring up pre-defined keywords. After selection of any variable, the values should be updated. The values are updated by pressing 'OK' button.
- Common:
- Company: Write the company name. Keyword - Company, Value: Text (e.g. dGB Earth Sciences).
- Default DATA directory: Set up a default OpendTect data directory. The value is a path pointing to a data directory e.g. /disk/ODData/.
- Fonts: Set fonts for OpendTect controls and graphics via the Font.* or Graphic.* keywords. The wild card character (*) refers to the text followed by the Font/Graphic word. All of these key words refer to a font dialog that may have a specific value. For instance, a value is written as Times New Roman`12`Normal`No [Font, Size, Style, Others]. The following keywords can have the similar values:
Font.def.Fixed width, Font.def.Graphics large, Font.def.Graphics medium, Font.def.Large control, Font.def.Small control, Font.for.Annotations, Font.for.Title, Graphics large font size, Graphics small font size.
- Icons.size: Set size of OpendTect icons. Its value can be a numeric number e.g. 20, 24, 32 etc.
- In-line byte: Set the inline byte location
- Pre-stack Viewer Settings (3D PS Viewer.*)
:With value=1,the Prestack viewer will change in autowidth mode
- Bold font: With Value set to 'Yes', the font is set to bold
- Cross-line byte: Set up the default cross-line byte location
- Default display quantity:
- Dialog font size:
- Display Table style:
- Display UnitID: Display the help window ID
- Font face:
- Help viewer:
- Hor field offset:
- MultiMachine.Nr inline per job: Optional overruling of number of jobs (i.e. number of inlines) for each machine while running multi-machine batch processing. Default value is 3.
- Nr Processors: Numeric number to specify the number of processors used for processing. E.g. '0' means use all processors.
- dTect.Measure LineStyle: Standard settings for the distance measurement tool available in the Graphics Toolbar.
- Printer:
- Query before remove:
- SU pick file:
- Seg-Y headers: Default file location for dumping SEG-Y headers. The value is the output path together with a file name (e.g. /disk/SGY_dump.txt).
- SEG-Y.Examine.Number of traces: Set a minimum numeric value (e.g. 100) for examining SEG-Y files.
- Ui.ToolTips.enable: Enables the tool tip guide. Set either Yes/No.
- dTect.Ask.*: Set to prompt a warning message settings (Value: Yes/No) for several windows. Prompt included when exiting OpendTect, closing Attribute Set window, storing picksets, storing sessions etc.
- dTect.Auto Attribute set: Set default attribute set-name that will be auto loaded when OpendTect is launched.
- dTect.Average even median:
- dTect.Color table.Name: Set the default color table. By default the Red-White-Blue color scheme. Set value as a color table name.
- dTect.ColorBar.show on top: Use value Yes/No to set the color table on top in the scene.
- dTect.ColorBar.show vertical: Set value to Yes/No for default orientation of the color table (vertical = Yes).
- 2D Viewer Settings (SeisView.*):.2D Viewer Display Properties of Wiggle Variable Area
The following keywords can have the similar values:
SeisView.Display.WVA.Clipping, SeisView.Display.WVA.Display Null traces, SeisView.Display.WVA.Draw wiggles, SeisView.Display.WVA.Interpolate, SeisView.Display.WVA.Left color, SeisView.Display.WVA.Min Pix/Trace, SeisView.Display.WVA.Overlap, SeisView.Display.WVA.Reftime color, SeisView.Display.WVA.Reverse order, SeisView.Display.WVA.Reverse polarity, SeisView.Display.WVA.Right color, SeisView.Display.WVA.Show reftime, SeisView.Display.WVA.Var Area.
- Show modifiers:
- Vert field offset:
- dTect.DTECT_SHOW_HELP: Show ID on the help-window icon
- dTect.Disp.Default auto symmetry:
- dTect.Disp.Default histogram equalisation:
- dTect.Disp.Default clip perc: Set a default clipping value (1-100 %) for clipping the seismic data.
- dTect.Default symmetry zero:This will set the color bar symmetry around zero
- dTect.Dont load plugins: Set to either load or not load plugins (subject to availability)
- dTect.Dump OI Menu: Special setting to export a OpendTect scene. Set value Yes/No to make option available.
- dTect.Enable VRML:
- dTect.Icons.size: Set a default numeric value for OpendTect icons size.
- dTect.ProcessVolumeBuilderOnOK: Volume Builder setup. By default the value is Yes i.e the set up processes the volume based on the available volume builder setup.
- dTect.Show inl progress: Set Yes/No to show or hide the inline progress bar while displaying the data.
- dTect.Use VolRen shading: Set Yes/No for volume rendering shading.
- dTect.Use shading: Set Yes/No for shading.
- dTect.Zoom factor: Set a value for wheel zooming factor. Default value is 1.
- dTect.KeyBindings.Default:
- dTect.Mousecontrols.Default:
- dTect.MouseInteraction.DepthKey:
- dTect.MouseInteraction.PlaneKey:
- dTect.Select Plugins: Select/de-select plugins
- dTect.VolRen shading: Set Yes/No for shading
- dTect.Use startup session: Directly start a session when opening a specific survey in OpendTect
This option enables the user to setup/edit the Survey default settings
Depending on the user, several settings are available. Let us describe few:
- 3DAttrset.Auto ID: This setting shows the ID value of the default auto-load attribute set.
- Default.Cube: This will show you the default cube ID. If there is no value, this will mean that no Default Cube was set in that survey. To set a Cube as default, go to "Manage Seismic Data" in the main OD interface then click on the 'set as default'
icon after a cube has been selected.
- Default.LineSet: This will show the ID value of the default 2D LineSet.
- Depth in feet: Change the Value to 'No' if the Depth is in meter.
- SEG-Y Rev.1 policy: When importing the SEG-Y,If the value is set to 1 the window will pop up asking a user to confirm the Rev1. With the value = -1 no confirmation pop-up window.
- Show depth in feet: This option enables the user to show the depth in meter if the value is set to 'No'. Setting the value to "Yes' will display the depth in feet
- Z Scale: This shows the value of the survey Z-scale
- Z Stretch: This setting shows the ID value of the stretch