Setting Up ASCET

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This help topic describes the ASCET-MD options. Add-on products, such as ASCET-RP, can add their own options; these are described in the respective add-on documentation.

You can set various options in ASCET. There are two types of options: general options and user-specific options. Both types are managed in the "Options" window and stored in XML files. When ASCET is booted for the first time after installation, these XML files do not exist. They are created automatically and assigned the default settings of the system or – if an older ASCET version was installed – the settings of the older version.

General options ( icon) are specific to the ASCET installation on your workstation. They comprise the target directory for code generation, several paths, code preview settings, and the selection of single- or multi-user mode for running the program.

General options are stored in the data directory in the stationSettings.xml file.

User-specific options ( icon) comprise a variety of topics, e.g., settings for diagrams, export/import file paths, screen fonts, font size, several settings for the various editors, default settings for elements, etc. With these options, you can create a user environment customized to meet your particular needs.

User-specific options are stored in the application data directory of the relevant user (C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\ETAS\Ascet\6.4 in the userSettings.xml file. With that, user settings of different users are automatically stored in different directories; special multi-user handling as in previous ASCET versions is no longer necessary.

Options for external tools (compiler, OS, interpolation routines, ...) are indicated by a green E as overlay icon: The values of these options are stored in the data directory in the externalToolsSettings.xml file.

User-defined options, also called external options, are also indicated by the green E as overlay icon:

Options for code generation targets are indicated by the following icon:

Options with invalid values are indicated by a red overlay icon containing a white X: / / /