Dips > General Features

# Preferences

The Preferences option in the File menu allows you to select various program preferences for Dips. The following options are available.

Show Tabs for Multiple Windows

If this option is selected, tabs for selecting the views will appear at the bottom of the application window, when multiple views are open. You may find this convenient for switching views when the view size is maximized within the application window.

Open Stereonet View for v5 files

When you open a Dips (version 5.0) file, a Grid View of the data is displayed by default. If this checkbox is selected, then a Grid View AND a Stereonet view will automatically be displayed when you open a Dips version 5 file. You may choose to open either a Pole Plot or a Contour Plot. If this checkbox is NOT selected, then only the Grid View will appear when you open a Dips version 5 file.

Sidebar Position

By default the Sidebar appears on the left side of the Dips application window. This preference allows you to choose the default sidebar location (left or right). This setting takes effect the next time you start Dips, not during the current session.

Maximum Number of Intersections to Display

The Intersection > Grid Data Planes option will plot the intersections of ALL of the planes in the main Dips spreadsheet or Grid View. That is, each plane in the file will be intersected against every other plane in the file. In general, this leads to a large (or very large) number of intersections. Depending on the number of planes in your Dips file, the display of all grid data plane intersections may cover most of the stereonet, obscuring other plot data. The maximum number of grid data plane intersections which get displayed can be limited with the Maximum Number of Intersections to Display option in the Preferences dialog.