The creation of a Problem Type involves the creation of a directory located inside the \problemtypes GiD folder, with the name of the problem type and the extension .gid.
Note: now it is also possible to have a /problemtypes extra folder located at the <GiD user preferences folder>. This is interesting in case that the user doesn't has privileges to copy a problemtype inside <GiD folder>/problemtypes
Problemtypes that exists when GiD start will appear in its menu (see Problem type from Reference Manual).
The problemtype configuration files are a collection of files inside this subfolder. The name for most of them will follow the format problem_type_name.xxx where the extension refers to their particular function.
Considering problem_type_name to be the name of the problem type and project_name the name of the project, file configuration is described by the following diagram:
- Directory name: problem_type_name.gid
- Directory location: c:\a\b\c\GiD_directory\problemtypes
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