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Date:	Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:33:51 +0000
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On 25/03/2013 11:25, Iain Paton wrote:
> I've used gschem& pcb on and off for many years, but recently my usage has spiked considerably and a couple of problems have started to become quite annoying.
> Google and the faq aren't helping me,
>
> First is that muscle memory has me using Alt-S to change hole sizes, but this now brings up a menu instead of changing the size. Doing what Alt-S used to do is now an akward manual excercise through a two level deep menu. Is there a better way, or a way to get the old behaviour back ?
>
> Second is that I rarely, if ever, want an 8 layer board. Editing the layers through File/Preferences is fine, but has to be done for every board. I found $HOME/.pcb/preferences which contains layer and group definitions, but if I edit these then they're ignored and over-written with the default 8 layer setup every time I restart pcb, similarly using --groups 1,c:2,s on the command line is ignored. Using the groups string in pcbrc also appears to be ignored.
>
> Somewhere in my attempts to solve this I've ended up with File/Preferences showing 8 layers, but drawing lines on a blank pcb nothing shows up at all - saving the file and opening it in an editor shows that it has a line Groups("") and I now have to manually edit the file and add the correct groups before re-opening it in pcb, trying to edit the layers in File/Preferences has no effect in the saved file.
>
> I can't be the only one who wants their own layer configuration and would like it to stick as a default. So how do I do it ?  Config file I've missed, or do I just have to find the place it's defined in the source change it and recompile ?
>

Hi Iain,

I'm not able to look at PCB right now, I'm on windows :( but I recall 
there being a 'use this as default for all designs' checkbox somewhere 
in the sizes/layers preferences which saves the current settings for 
layers etc and will then start new designs with these settings.

I'd start a new design, fiddle until you're happy, tick that box then 
quit. Repeat this process making a new design each time to check the 
settings until you're happy.

As for key mappings, a lot changed, I'm not sure - perhaps some else can 
help here...

Best,
Ed

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Ed Simmons
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