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Select Setup>Default Preferences and untick "Include height in footprint name"Click X> "Preferences have changed ....." click YES, message "Unable to save" WHY?

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pnichols Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New User Joined: 05 Sep 2012 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote pnichols Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Unable To Save Options Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 12:19am
	Select Setup>Default Preferences and untick "Include height in footprint name" Click X> "Preferences have changed ....." click YES, message "Unable to save" WHY?



Jeff.M Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 16 May 2012 Location: San Diego Status: Offline Points: 477	Post Options Post Reply Quote Jeff.M Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 7:35am
	You're getting this message because there's no file name to save as. I'll modify this to open the File Save dialog box instead of throwing up this ambiguous message.

pnichols Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New User Joined: 05 Sep 2012 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote pnichols Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 7:37am
	Thanks Jeff, when will the update be available?

Tom H Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 05 Jan 2012 Location: San Diego, CA Status: Offline Points: 5716	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tom H Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 7:38am
	It will be available later today in the V2012.19 release. We're hot on it for you!

pnichols Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New User Joined: 05 Sep 2012 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote pnichols Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 7:56am
	Well, I could not ask for a quicker response than that! Thanks again.

Mattylad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Advanced User Joined: 02 Jun 2012 Location: Lancashire UK Status: Offline Points: 152	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mattylad Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 3:27pm
	How is this supposed to work? If we make a change to the default preferences- a change that we want set as a permanent default I.E. unticking "include centroid marker" then we get prompted to save this into a new file. When is this new file used? I started FPE again and it used the default preferences again?

Tom H Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 05 Jan 2012 Location: San Diego, CA Status: Offline Points: 5716	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tom H Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 3:31pm
	You have to load your "personal Default Preferences" in User Preferences menu at the top of the menu. i.e.: replace "DefaultPreferences.dat" with your "PresonalDefaultPreferences.dat" in Setup. Setup > User Preferences > DefaultPreferences > Search > Find > Select

Mattylad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Advanced User Joined: 02 Jun 2012 Location: Lancashire UK Status: Offline Points: 152	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mattylad Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 3:39pm
	Ah - but that's changing the user preferences - not the default preferences. What if we never ever - ever want a centroid marker - irrespective of what the user preferences are? Why can we not save the defaults?

Tom H Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 05 Jan 2012 Location: San Diego, CA Status: Offline Points: 5716	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tom H Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 3:59pm
	The "User Preferences" is the only place to change all the preferences. The Default Preferences simply creates a .dat file and you need to load it in "User Preferences" in the Default Preferences File (dat) section. If you change any User Preference Rules, Drafting, Component Families, Terminals, then you need to set your environment to "User". If you add a new Default Preferences .dat file you can use the Environment "Nominal". Or you can have a combination of both User Default Preferences and User Preferences but the Envornment needs to be "User". i.e.: if you change any data in any "User" field you need to select "User" environment. Did I miss something? When you are creating a DefaultPreferences .dat file, you MUST select "Apply Changes" button in every menu that you change something. Otherwise your changes are rejected.

Mattylad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Advanced User Joined: 02 Jun 2012 Location: Lancashire UK Status: Offline Points: 152	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mattylad Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 Sep 2012 at 1:10pm
	What about the 3 IPC environment settings? If we set the environment to user, we cannot use the l/m/n settings can we? And I am assuming that there is a difference in them, what is the difference? How would a setting like the one I have mentioned be made globally across ALL environment settings if we cannot change the default ones? I cannot save a DefaultPreferences .dat file as it will not let me. Does a user saved one need to be renamed to DefaultPreferences .dat to be used as that? Companies often want to be able to set programs so that the users all use certain settings by default.