Chapter 9 Preferences and Units

The Preferences object provides access to settings that control the sign conventions and units used to display and input quantities into the Multiframe user interface.  These settings also control the sign convention used within Multiframes automation interface and so it is important when automating Multiframe to ensure that any input is expressed with the current sign conventions and in the correct units.  The properties and methods of the preference object are summarised in the two tables that follow.

 

Property

Type

Description

Application

Application

Read Only.  Returns a reference to the parent application.

TensionPositive

Boolean

Get/Set whether distributed masses are to be used in the analysis.

UnitSet

mfUnitSets

Get/Set whether lumped masses are to be used in the analysis.

 

 

Method

Returns

Description

GetUnit

String

Returns the name of the specified unit.

SetUnit

 

Sets the specified unit.