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Setting Paths for Mechanical CAD

Setting Mechanical CAD Dimensions

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9. In the Auto save settings box:
• Enable auto save—Activates the autosave function. When
activated, you can also change the time between autosaves in the
Time interval (minutes) field.
10. Edit the following as desired:
• Minimum control point size—The size of control points on
vertices and other objects.
• Line width cache size—The number of recently used line widths
Ultiboard keeps in memory. Minimum cache size is 5.
• Unicode Settings box—If desired, enable the Save .TXT files as
plain text checkbox.
• Language—Select the desired language from the list. You must
restart Ultiboard for all dialog boxes to reflect the new setting.
The Ultiboard installation puts specific files in specific locations. If
necessary you can point Ultiboard to a new location.
Complete the following steps to set up file locations for mechanical CAD
files:
1. Choose Options»Global Preferences. The Preferences dialog box
appears.
2. From the Preferences dialog box, click the Paths tab.
This tab works the same way as the one for PCB designs. Refer to the
Paths Tab section of Chapter 1,
Complete the following steps to set mechanical CAD dimensions:
1. Choose Options»Global Preferences. The Preferences dialog box
appears.
2. Click the Dimensions tab and set the parameters for dimensions.
This tab works the same way as the Dimensions tab for PCB designs.
Refer to the Dimensions Tab
more information.
User Interface, for more information.
section of Chapter 1,
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