Lumerical startup scripts overview

Overview

The Lumerical startup scripts are automatically run each time the application starts up and they can be used to configure the global environment. There are 4 startup scripts covering all possible combination of: all-users, user-specific, all-products (shared), and product-specific.

The startup scripts will run in the following order:

global shared startup script
global $(PRODUCT) startup script
local shared start-up script
local $(PRODUCT) start-up script

Users can 'open', 'initialize' and 'modify' the startup scripts by selecting 'Open startup scripts' in the 'File' drop-down menu from with the CAD. This will open all possible startup scripts for each product.

Notes:

Local or user script files are automatically created, but system wide script files, needs to be created manually.
Users can also create and modify the startup script files by going to the above mentioned locations and create/modify the files.
The 0 byte startup scripts will not run when the application opens

Startup script file location

Once created, the startup scripts will be located in the following places:

Windows

local-user

C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Lumerical\startup script.lsf

system-wide

C:\Program Files\Lumerical\[[verpath]]\Lumerical\startup script.lsf

Linux

local-user
```
~/.config/Lumerical/startup script.lsf
```