Saving and loading preferences?
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Saving and loading preferences?
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
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
Re: Saving and loading preferences?
You can use the command line switches to use several different configuration files.
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Start_up_an ... ne_options
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Start_up_an ... ne_options
Re: Saving and loading preferences?
Wasn't chennes working on something to save and load parts of the config?
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Re: Saving and loading preferences?
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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Re: Saving and loading preferences?
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.
Re: Saving and loading preferences?
Thanks - in fact the link to the config file location is very handy too, I can probably do something to swap those!openBrain wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 2:15 pm You can use the command line switches to use several different configuration files.
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Start_up_an ... ne_options
Thanks to the others who replied too!
Re: Saving and loading preferences?
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.
Re: Saving and loading preferences?
Quite some time ago there was a discussion about including the unit system, or perhaps use different unit systems for loaded files.
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Re: Saving and loading preferences?
I don't remember the details, but I don't think it resulted in a feature request.
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