Fine-tuning
This page holds different settings and parameters that you can use to fine-tune your FreeCAD installation or overcome problems.
Option parameters
The FreeCAD Preferences Editor under menu Edit → Preferences is commonly used to set and manipulate the FreeCAD parameters table.
However, it is also possible to access, modify and create parameters manually, using the Parameter Editor found under menu Tools → Edit parameters.
The list below shows parameters that are not accessible via the preferences editor, but that you can set manually:
- Mod/Part/ParametricRefine (boolean) : Set to
false
so Part RefineShape creates an independent copy rather than a linked one. - Mod/PartDesign/SwitchToTask (boolean): Set to
false
to prevent the PartDesign Workbench from switching to the Task panel when starting. - Document/SaveThumbnailFix (boolean): Set to
true
to fix a problem with Qt5 that prevents the generation of.FCStd
file thumbnails. - TechDraw has several hidden switches documented in TechDraw Preferences.
- View/SavePicture (string): Set to FramebufferObject, PixelBuffer or CoinOffscreenRenderer for different methods to produce images from the 3D view
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