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Where do I find Settings?

Click your picture or initials in the top right to open the account menu, then Settings. On a narrower window the gallery keeps that menu at the foot of the ☰ menu instead, and in the planner on a phone Settings is in the More menu.

Settings is a page of its own, drawn over whatever you were doing. A case you had open stays open underneath it, exactly as you left it, and the arrow at the top left — Back to the films, or Back to Cases from the gallery — takes you back to it.

The page lists its tabs down the left: General holds appearance, security and your planning defaults, Shortcuts holds the mouse and the keyboard, Imaging and Specialist work have articles of their own, linked below, and Practice software says where the links to a practice-management system are up to: ezyVet and Instinct are in development, and neither can be switched on yet. On a phone the list lies down into a grid of tabs across the top.

Do my settings follow me to another computer?

Yes. The General and Shortcuts tabs are saved to your account — the theme, the text size, the language, your planning defaults (target TPA, blade, marker sizes, how D1 and D2 are numbered), the mouse buttons and the scroll behaviour — and so are the gallery’s layout and sort order, the widths you drag the film columns to, and whether the implant panel floats or sits in the sidebar. Set them once and every computer you sign in on picks them up. A tip you have dismissed stays dismissed everywhere too. What you set up on Imaging belongs to your account or your practice as well — a PACS connection is saved to your Librevet account, and the sending and email addresses belong to the practice. On a shared computer each account keeps its own.

Three things stay with the computer, because they describe the machine rather than you: how long a sign-in lasts (the shared console in the prep room can ask for a sign-in every day while your own laptop asks every month), whether the computer has shown it has a trackpad, and where you dragged the floating dental chart on that screen.

Two-factor sign-in is the exception — it is part of your account, so it applies wherever you sign in.

How do I change the theme or the text size?

General → Appearance holds Theme (Light or Dark, for every screen — only each radiograph keeps its black background and dark bar in both) and Text size (Default, Large or Larger). Both are already answered in Frequently asked questions — see its Appearance section.

How long do I stay signed in?

General → Security → Sign in again offers Daily, Weekly and Monthly. Monthly is what the app starts on.

The setting is described on the page as this device only, so your own laptop stays on Monthly while the shared console in the prep room is set to Daily.

You are never signed out mid-session. The renewal is asked when you next open Librevet, not while you are working — so nothing can log you out over a half-placed osteotomy. There is no “never”: the longest setting is a month.

Can I use an authenticator app?

Yes. General → Security → Two-factor sign-in, described on the page as optional. An authenticator app on your phone produces a six-digit code, asked for alongside your password — it works with no signal, which a text message does not.

Press Set up and Librevet shows a setup key to copy into the app, then asks for the code the app shows. Nothing changes on your account until that code is accepted. Once it is on, the row reads On and offers Turn off.

How do I set the size of my calibration markers?

General → Planning Defaults → Your Calibration Markers has two boxes, in millimetres:

• Circle — the ball or other round marker you use. Starts at 25 mm.
• Line — the ruler or other linear marker. Starts at 50 mm.

Settings describes these as what your own markers measure: they are offered on upload, when the app checks a new radiograph for a marker, and are still correctable film by film in the calibration panel. A radiograph can show that a marker is round and how many pixels across it is; it cannot show whether those pixels are 25 mm or 10 mm, which is why you state it here once.

Setting the scale with Set Scale in the Calibration panel also updates the figure here, and the shape decides which of the two boxes moves: a ball updates Circle, a hand-drawn line updates Line. A size you correct on the panel offered when a film is uploaded applies to that film only, and leaves this figure alone. See Calibrating radiographs.

How do I change the default blade size?

General → Planning Defaults → Default Blade Size, a list of saw radii in millimetres: 8, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 27, 30 and 33. It starts at 21 mm.

It is the blade a new TPLO arc opens at, so it takes effect on the next arc you place, not on one already on a film. A placed arc is resized by selecting it and using the same slider. Settings notes that it is also settable on the armed TPLO tool — pick it there, before you place the arc, and Settings shows the same figure afterwards.

How do I change the default target TPA?

General → Planning Defaults → Default Target TPA, in degrees. Settings describes it as the standard TPA for new automatic TPLO plans, and it starts at 5°.

It is a starting figure for the box, not a recommendation: it seeds the target on a new plan, and on any one plan you type the target you want, which is what that plan then uses. Changing it here leaves plans you have already made alone. See TPLO planning workflow.

Which TT distance is D1?

General → Planning Defaults → TT measurements: D1 is — Perpendicular or Along crest. Vets number the two tuberosity distances both ways round, so the TPLO panel asks once, the first time you open it, and this is where you change the answer — or drag the D1 tile onto D2 in the panel itself. Only the names swap; the lines and the figures stay the same. See Osteotomy and repositioning tools.

Can I change the mouse buttons?

Yes. Shortcuts → Mouse and trackpad has a row for each of Left-button drag, Middle-button drag and Right-button drag, and each can be set to Move film, Zoom, Brightness / contrast or Turn film.

The notes beside the rows are worth reading: a left-button drag is about empty film, and a measurement or implant you grab still moves normally; a short right-click still cancels the tool you are placing; and a trackpad or Magic Mouse has no middle button at all, so on those machines turn the film by holding Option / Alt and moving the pointer — no click needed — or with the knob in the film’s bottom-right corner. Those two always turn the film, whatever the middle-button row is set to.

Knob in the corner sits in the same section: it switches the rotation knob off or on, on every film. Switched off, each film’s bar gets a Rotate image button instead. It is not offered on a touchscreen, where two fingers twist the film.

Scroll sits in the same section and decides what a mouse wheel or a two-finger trackpad scroll does — Auto, Zoom or Move. It starts on Auto on a Mac and on Zoom everywhere else. Pinching always zooms, whichever you choose.

The full tables, and what Auto does, are in Keyboard shortcuts.

What does Medical viewer layout do?

It is the second of the two buttons at the top right of Shortcuts → Mouse and trackpad, and it is the layout a Horos or OHIF user’s hands already know: brightness and contrast on the left button, move the film on the middle button, zoom on the right. It also sets Scroll to Zoom.

How do I put the mouse and scroll settings back?

Restore defaults, beside it. That is left button moves the film, middle button turns it, right button is brightness and contrast, and Scroll back where the computer starts — Auto on a Mac, Zoom everywhere else.

Can I change the redo shortcut?

Shortcuts → Keyboard → Redo offers Y, Shift + Z or Either. Both chords work out of the box — Ctrl / Cmd + Y as in most software, and Shift + Z as in Mac apps — so narrow it here only if one of them clashes with something else you use. Undo is always Ctrl / Cmd + Z and cannot be changed.

The rest of that tab is a reference list of the app’s keys. Keyboard shortcuts has the same list, plus the keys the Freehand and Segment outline tools use, which the sidebar shows while you use them.

Do shortcuts fire while I am typing?

No. Settings says so at the top of the Shortcuts tab: shortcuts are ignored while you are typing.

Where do I set up my X-ray equipment?

The Imaging tab, which has its own article — Getting radiographs in from your equipment.

How do I apply to answer other vets’ cases?

The Specialist work tab. See Specialist opinions.

Where are my account, my practice and my plan?

Not in Settings. They are separate rows of the same account menu — Account, Your plan, Your practice and Invite colleagues — because they are records of who you are, who you work with and what you pay, while Settings is preferences. Your plan is shown to a vet on Free and to a practice’s owner and managers, and Your practice to anyone who belongs to a practice.

How do I invite a colleague?

Open the account menu and choose Invite colleagues. Your own invite code is there, with a link beside it. Copy either one and send it to a colleague: the link opens the sign-up form with your code already filled in, or they can type the code into Invite code (optional) when they sign up. It works whether they sign up with an email address, Google or Microsoft.

A vet who signs up with your code skips the verification queue — their account is verified straight away, with no licence to upload. Their name then appears under Colleagues who joined on the same page.

Your code appears once your own account is verified. It does not expire, and there is no limit on how many colleagues can use it. An invite code brings a colleague onto Librevet with an account of their own; to add somebody to your practice, invite them under Your practice instead.

How do I change my password?

Account → Account → Password → Change password. Type the password you use now, then the new one twice — it needs at least 10 characters, and there are no rules about capitals or numbers. Save new password checks the old one first. If two-factor sign-in is on, you are asked for the code from your authenticator app before anything is saved. Your other devices will ask you to sign in again.

Forgotten the one you use now? Forgotten it? Email me a link instead, on the same row, sends a link to set a new one to your account’s email address.

If you sign in with Google or Microsoft there is no Librevet password to change — the row says so, and that account looks after it.

How do I change my name?

Account → Profile → Name. Type it the way you want colleagues to see it and press Save. It is shown on cases you share, in messages, and on your practice’s list of vets, and a new name reaches all three. The audit trail and messages you have already sent keep the name you had when you wrote them.

How do I add a photo of myself?

Account → Profile → Photo → Add a photo. Choose a picture — it is cut to a square, keeping the top of a portrait, and made small before it is sent. It is shown to your practice’s list of vets, on the cases you share with a colleague (“Shared by” with your photo), and to the vet who opens a referral link you send. Change photo replaces it and Remove takes it down straight away.

Only a photo you add here is shown to other people. The picture a Google or Microsoft sign-in brings stays on your own account menu.

How do I turn off email notifications?

To stop the emails about cases, go to Account → Email me when. There is a switch for each kind of notification:

• A colleague shares a case with me — the case is under Shared in your gallery either way.
• Someone sends me a message — from a colleague, or a supplier answering your question.
• There is news on a specialist opinion — a specialist takes your case, writes to you about it, answers it, or runs late.
• A case I could take comes in — shown only if you have a specialist listing.

Everything starts switched on. Emails about your account itself — signing in, your password and verification — always come, and so does the reminder that a case you have taken as a specialist is overdue. Product news and announcements are a separate switch, Marketing Emails, under Privacy & Data on the same page.

Can I stop the emails when a case is shared with me?

Yes — switch off A colleague shares a case with me under Account → Email me when. The case still appears under Shared in your gallery; only the email stops. The other kinds of email have switches of their own beside it.

How do I put our logo and address on our reports?

Your practice → Practice details, for the practice’s owner or a manager. Add a logo takes a PNG or JPEG — a PNG with a clear background looks best — and Name, address and contact details holds the practice name, address, phone, email and website; only the name is required. Save details keeps them.

They are printed across the top of the first page of every surgical report, and shown to the vet who opens a referral link you send (not on an anonymised link). Everyone else in the practice sees them read-only.

A vet without a practice sets the Practice name under Account → Profile instead. It heads their reports and their referral links.

How do I change our practice’s name?

Your practice → Practice details → Practice name, then Save details — the owner or a manager can. The new name is on the next report, and on the referral offers and unanswered invitations the practice has already sent.