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DikH
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Save my setup

Post by DikH »

I have a specific setup on windows in FreeCAD that I like to use. Is there any way short of recording a macro for each project that will enable my doing this? I'm using 0.19 on a Windows10 PC.
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Re: Save my setup

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The setup is saved in the file user.cfg. You can take it an copy it to another computer.
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DikH
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Re: Save my setup

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I was unclear. What I do is tile the main and spreadsheet windows, with the Windows spread across both my monitors so that I can have the main window on the main monitor and the spreadsheet on the other monitor. At 75, I cannot remember how I named my variables so I need to look them up as I work. I'm wondering if there is a way to have FreeCAD set up this way every time automatically or at least with a button click? I tried to use a macro, but could not get it to work. I'm using 20.1 as I cannot get 20.2 to open. This is my setup:
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Re: Save my setup

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Attah images directly, as so from your setup:
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Re: Save my setup

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There is some (minimal) window setup information stored in the Windows registry by Qt. (There is almost nothing else from FreeCAD stored in the registry.)

Unfortunately Windows(tm) tends to rearrange window sizes and positions according to some unknown plan, or perhaps no plan at all.

I see that sort of placement "forgetting" in many applications. Not sure anything can be done.

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