FreeCAD-Preferences-Presets

Video Tutorial

[LinkStage3] SplitDark and Pie menu's installing using the Preferences presets functionality.

At the moment, these preferences presets are intended to be used with Realthunder’s FreeCAD LinkStage3 development branch that can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/releases

Both the preferences presets and the Linkstage3 release are considered unstable and intended for testing purposes so please do a backup of your FreeCAD configuration and don’t use it for important work.

You can already find builtin presets as of FreeCAD Linkstage3 2021.09.16 Release. They can be accessed in menu 'Tools -> Preset configurations.

Install:

• Backup your FreeCAD settings folder.

• As a prerequisite, you must be using Realthunder’s experimental LinkStage3 branch

• Clone or download this github repo: https://github.com/oficinerobotica/FreeCAD-Preferences-Presets

• Within the downloaded repo locate the src directory. It contains 2 important folders named Gui and settings

• Copy the src/Gui and src/settings folders to your local default FreeCAD settings folder. Note: reference the list below for your OS.

  macOS: /Users/[YOUR_USER_NAME]/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD/
  Windows: C:\Users\[YOUR_USER_NAME]\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD
  Linux: /home/[YOUR_USER_NAME]/.FreeCAD/

• Restart FreeCAD

Alternate install:

Download or clone oficinerobotica/FreeCAD-Preferences-Presets to a convenient location.

Within the repository you'll find the:

1. FreeCAD-Preferences-Presets folder. These are the main presets
2. Mods folder which is reserved for experimentation. The presets in this directory are intended to be merged with a previous configuration. Use these only if you know what are you doing.

In FreeCAD, head over to Tools → EditParameters menu and click the Add button selecting the .FCParam file of your choice from the FreeCAD-Preferences-Presets folder.

To apply the the preferences pack select it in Tools → Preset Configurations

Revert changes

To revert to your previous configuration CTRL+Click the preset in Tools → Preset Configurations

Feedback

Open a ticket in this repo or discuss in the FreeCAD forum.

Donate

If you are benefitting from these efforts and want to show your appreciation/support, check out my Patreon or Liberapay. Also consider donating to @Realthunder's efforts on his Patreon.

Author

Presets package authored by @oficinerobotica.