Assembly Preferences
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The preferences for the Assembly Workbench can be found in the Preferences Editor. In the menu select Edit → Preferences and then
Assembly. This group is only available if the Assembly Workbench has been loaded in the current FreeCAD session.
There is only one page: General.
On this page you can specify the following:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Esc leaves edit mode | If checked, pressing the Esc key leaves Assembly edit mode. |
| Log dragging steps | If checked, the dragging steps of the solver are logged. Useful if you want to report a bug. The files are named runPreDrag.asmt and dragging.log and are located in the default directory of std::ofstream (on Windows it's the desktop).
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| Ground first part | When you insert the first part in the assembly, you can choose to ground the part automatically. The options are:
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