Saving and loading preferences?

[Brutha]

Hi All,

Quick question - is anyone aware of any way I can save and load sets of preferences? Or ideally save preferences within the FreeCAD file?

I use FreeCAD for various things from small 3d printed objects, through slightly bigger designs to more architectural sized things. And each time I swap between them, I have to go and change the grid size and units etc, to something suitable for that particular design.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Brutha

[openBrain]

You can use the command line switches to use several different configuration files.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Start_up_an ... ne_options

[chrisb]

Wasn't chennes working on something to save and load parts of the config?

[TheMarkster]

I think kisolre put together a script or something for this or something similar once, if memory serves, but I can't recall the details.

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[kisolre]

but I can't recall the details.

If I remember correctly it was more like a FR when I was trying to run FreeCAD as a portable app from an USB drive.

[Brutha]

You can use the command line switches to use several different configuration files.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Start_up_an ... ne_options

Thanks - in fact the link to the config file location is very handy too, I can probably do something to swap those!

Thanks to the others who replied too!

[Frotz]

Apologies for the necro-post, but has anyone explored the idea of embedding preferences into a FreeCAD file? It would be a big help when switching between different projects.

[chrisb]

Apologies for the necro-post, but has anyone explored the idea of embedding preferences into a FreeCAD file? It would be a big help when switching between different projects.

Quite some time ago there was a discussion about including the unit system, or perhaps use different unit systems for loaded files.

[Frotz]

Apologies for the necro-post, but has anyone explored the idea of embedding preferences into a FreeCAD file? It would be a big help when switching between different projects.

Quite some time ago there was a discussion about including the unit system, or perhaps use different unit systems for loaded files.

What came of it?

[chrisb]

What came of it?

I don't remember the details, but I don't think it resulted in a feature request.