Project settings and Preferences

What they are for

There are two places for settings, with different roles:

With nothing selected, the side panel shows a project summary. Each row has Change, which opens the right section of the settings.

Project settings

General

The drawing title block: client, project, phase, discipline / area, title, scale, drawing No., revision, drawn / checked / approved by, date, logos, revisions and date format. Details in Export PDF.

Particle size

Turn particle size on or off, tick the sieves of the series (shortcuts Crushing, Grinding and concentration, Book series, All), mesh number (ASTM or Tyler) and control sizes. Details in Particle size distribution.

Grades

The project analytes with their unit (%, g/t, ppm), Add ore package, My analytes shortcuts, the star to save an analyte to My analytes and Remove from the project. Details in Grades.

Tags and names

Tags identify the units on the drawing (PV-01, CI-01, BP-01…).

• Tag prefix for each equipment type present in the project, with a suggestion based on Portuguese names (PV vibrating screen, CI hydrocyclone, SM WHIMS, ES thickener, TQ tank, BP slurry pumps…). It accepts an area: "PV-XX" generates PV-XX-01.
• Numbering: prefix + "-" + two digits, following the highest number already used. A new unit comes in already numbered; a copy gets the next number.
• Number untagged: tags the units that have no tag (useful in older projects).
• Renumber all: redoes all tags, tab by tab, from top to bottom and from left to right. Attached pumps are renumbered right after their tank.
• Show tags on the drawing and Show names on the drawing apply to the whole project (also in View ▾).
• In each unit panel: Number, the tag field (it can be typed; it must be unique), Show tag and Show name.

On the drawing, the tag is on top, in bold, and the name below it, both under the symbol. Feed, Product, Water feed, Stream junction and Water addition have no tag.

Changing the prefix does not change the tags already assigned; use Renumber all if you want to.

Preferences

They are in My account → Preferences. Language and theme are also in the avatar menu, in the top right corner of every page, including with a project open: the change applies at once, without reloading the drawing.

• Language: English, Spanish or Portuguese. The screen changes at once, and the choice is saved in your account. Numbers follow the language: decimal comma in Portuguese (3,5), decimal point in English and Spanish (3.5); when typing, both formats are accepted. What you have already typed in the project (names of units, streams and tabs) is not translated; names of new items are created in the current language.
• Screen
  • Theme: Automatic (follows the system), Light or Dark. It also applies to the rest of the site. The PDF always prints on light paper.
  • Grid on the drawing: turns the background grid on or off.
  • Balance pane in the editor: open or hidden (see Stream table).
• Dates — Date format in the title block: system (the order of the browser language) or a fixed format.
• Stream table — Restore the default row order. To change the order, drag the rows in the table.
• PDF — Show “made with miningflow.app” in the corner of the sheet.
• My analytes — your analytes, including the ones you create (e.g. "Fe2O3 magnetic", "Free Au", "Soluble Cu"):
  • free name of up to 16 characters (letters, digits, space and the signs ( ) + - / .);
  • unit %, g/t or ppm, which can be changed;
  • Add and Remove; up to 40 analytes.

  They appear as shortcuts in Project settings → Grades.

Preferences are saved in your account. The editor only opens through the site, after signing in: opened directly by its address, it takes you to Projects (and to the sign-in page, without a login).

My title block and My clients

They are in My account → Title block. They hold what you repeat on the title block of every drawing:

• My title block: your company's logo (logo 1), Drawn by, Checked by, Approved by and Discipline / area. Click Save. Every new project starts with it;
• My clients: up to 30 clients, each with a name and a logo (logo 2). Add client, Choose image… for the logo and the trash can to remove.

In the project, in Project settings → General: Client from my list, Apply my title block and Save client to my list (see Export PDF). What goes into the project is a copy: changing it here doesn't change existing projects.

The backup in My account → Your data includes My title block and My clients in the file carimbo.json. When you import the .zip in Projects, what is missing in the account comes back (My title block, if it is empty, and the clients not on the list); nothing already there is replaced.

View ▾ menu

• Grid
• Balance pane (shows or hides the stream table and the closure)
• PDF sheet limits
• Equipment tags and Equipment names
• Show the whole drawing (Ctrl+0)

Common warnings and limits

• The size of the panes (palette, panel, balance) and the collapsed groups of the table are not remembered between sessions.
• In read-only mode, the project settings can be viewed but not changed. Preferences, which belong to your account, remain editable in My account.