User Guide

58 CHAPTER 5
The Preferences dialog box includes controls to customize Atmosphere.
Output Settings
To make Atmosphere fi les smaller, you can enable the Save in Compressed Format option. Compressed fi les take up
less disk space and download faster, but they need to be uncompressed before they can be used. This is a one-time
action that happens when the environment is fi rst loaded.
The Launch Web Browser on Publish option will open a specifi ed web browser once the Publish command is used.
You can select the web page to load when the browser is launched by typing in a URL.
Display
The second section of the Preferences dialog box includes controls that affect the Display including options that apply
to the wireframe views including Grid, Snap to Grid, Guidelines and Shadows. You can also set the grid Spacing and
Subdivisions. The default is set to 10. Units can be set to be Feet, Meters, Inches, Yards, Centimeters, Millimeters,
Miles, or Kilometers.