Preferences
In this section the different settings that controls the default behavior of ResInsight is described. These settings can be controlled using the Preferences dialog available from the Edit -> Preferences menu.
Preferences are not stored in project files, but in a platform specific way for each user.
Essential preferences are listed below.
General

When changing the preferences, any default color, font or Z-scale Factor that has not been changed by the user in the various views, will be applied immediately. If the user has changed font sizes in specific plots or annotations from the default value, ResInsight will ask if the user wants the new defaults applied to all existing views and plots even where custom settings have been set.
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Default Colors: This group contains the colors that will be applied to the 3D views:
- Viewer Background
- Mesh Color
- Mesh Color Along Faults
- Well Label Color
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Default Font Sizes: This group contains fonts preferences when using ResInsight:
- Viewer Font Size – The fonts used for axes labels, legends and info boxes in the 3d View.
- Annotation Font Size – The font used as default for Text Annotations.
- Well Label Font Size – The font used for all Well Path labels.
- Plot Font Size - The font used for plot legends, axes, and labels.
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3D Views: This group of options controls visual settings to be used when creating new views:
- Show Grid Lines – Controls whether to show the grid lines by default for all cells or just along faults.
- Navigation mode – Defines the use of mouse for interaction with 3D model, c.f. Model Navigation.
- Default Z Scale Factor – Default depth scale for grid models.
- Show Box around Legends – Create a semi-transparent box containing each legend in the 3D Views.
- Enable Faults by Default – Controls default visibility of faults in views
- Show Info Box in New Projects – Controls default visibility Info Box in upper right corner
- Show Grid Box in New Projects – Controls default visibility of grid box
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Other:
- SSIHUB Address – Optional URL to Equinor internal web service used to import well paths
- Enable Undo/Redo for Property Editor Changes – enable undo/redo functionality
Grid

- Compute DEPTH Related Properties – If not present, compute DEPTH, DX, DY, DZ, TOP, BOTTOM when loading new cases.
- Load and Show SOIL – Control if SOIL is loaded and applied to grid per default.
- Import Faults/NNCs/Advanced MSW Data – Disable options to reduce case import time.
- Include File Absolute Path Prefix – Prefix used on Windows if include files use absolute UNIX paths.
- Use Result Index File – If enabled ResInsight will try to save a result index file when opening a new case (stored in the same directory as the
*.EGRID
file with filename <casename>.RESINSIGHT_IDX
) If existing, ResInsight will use the index file when loading the case resulting in a significant speedup.
- Skip Import of Simulation Well Data – Disable import of simulation well data for reducing case import time.
Summary

- Origin Files: c.f. Origin Files for details.
- Summary Data Import including file format for summary data import, c.f. Ensemble Summary:
- h5 (HDF5) Import data from h5 files
- UNSMRY (libecl) Import data from native UNSMRY files
- ESMRY (opm-common) Import data from ESMRY files
Plotting

Please consider the location and folders of your templates with care to cater for structured usage but also to limit the folder search depth for performance reasons.
Scripting
