System options — gull system handbook
System options in gull system: the Account, General, Appearance, CAD integration and Updates categories, running in the background, theme and language, add-in registration, installing a new version.
System options
The app's settings for this computer: account and licence, start-up behaviour, look and language, the SOLIDWORKS add-in, updates. The gear icon in the window header opens them.
The window has a search box over the categories and the buttons OK, Cancel, Apply and Help.
- Category: Account - Row: Signed in as, Sign out - Meaning: who is signed in; signing out frees the licence seat and removes the stored key
- Category: Account - Row: Licence - Meaning: the company and the state: active, activation expired, suspended, stopped, not activated; Open the account on the web
- Category: General - Row: When Windows starts, the app - Meaning: does not start / starts / starts in the background
- Category: General - Row: Closing the app - Meaning: closes it / keeps it running in the background / keeps it in the background while the CAD runs
- Category: General - Row: Navigation at start - Meaning: narrow / wide / as when closed
- Category: Appearance - Row: App theme, Colour scheme, Language - Meaning: dark / light / system; Blue / Grey; Čeština / English
- Category: CAD integration - Row: The add-in in SOLIDWORKS - Meaning: the add-in's state and Register / Register again — see Install gull system and the add-in
- Category: CAD integration - Row: When SOLIDWORKS starts, the app - Meaning: does not start / starts / starts in the background
- Category: CAD integration - Row: Panel look in the CAD - Meaning: dark / light / follow the app
- Category: Updates - Row: Installed version, New version, Check, Install version - Meaning: a new version installs when the app restarts
Running in the background
Orders from Excel and from a page are processed by the app even without an open window — running in the background is enough. For a computer that takes orders set When Windows starts: start in the background and Closing the app: keep running in the background. The SOLIDWORKS panel can start the app itself with Start in the background.
The CAD integration category exists only with a licence that includes CAD configurators. A web-configurators-only licence does not have it.