Settings & Configuration¶

This guide covers all the current configuration options for Cute Plot. Our aim with Cute Plot is to provide practical, usable defaults, but to allow for customisation if required.

Preferences¶

Open Settings → Preferences... for the main settings window, organised into sections on the left:

General - query decimal places, screenshot folder
Appearance - theme, and a separate theme for screenshots
Files - date/time formats for parsing timestamps, and the lazy-load threshold (200 MB by default) above which a file loads on demand instead of all at once
Plotting - downsampling amount, frame rate, and decimal places and date formatting for line tags
Network - proxy settings for the licence server
Misc - logging, background updates, and an experimental features toggle

Changes take effect on Apply Preferences.

Query Analysis Configuration¶

Open Settings → Query Options. Each statistic can be switched on or off independently; mean, delta and window width are on by default. The full list, with descriptions and defaults, is in Query & Analysis Tools.

The options are grouped as:

Basic statistics: mean, delta, minimum, maximum, standard deviation, count
Window measurements: window width, window frequency
Signal analysis: ramp rate, RMS, FFT analysis (dominant frequency)
Power systems metrics: NER rise time, recovery time, NER settling time, damping ratio

Query Options window

File Locations¶

Cute Plot keeps its settings in %USERPROFILE%\.cuteplot\:

Path	Contents
`templates\`	Saved templates, as `.yaml` files. See Templating System
`recent_templates.json`	Recently used and favourite templates
`preferences.json`	Settings from the Preferences window
Log files	Diagnostic output for support requests

Troubleshooting¶

Resetting Configuration¶

Delete %USERPROFILE%\.cuteplot\ to return every setting to its default. This also deletes your saved templates and Preferences, so copy the templates\ folder elsewhere first if you want to keep them.