Sketcher Preferences
The preferences of the Sketcher is located in the Edit menu → Preferences → Sketcher. It consists of 2 tabs:
General Settings
In the General tab you can specify the following:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Font size | The font size used for the labels and constraints in the sketch. |
| Grid line pattern | The line pattern used for grid lines. Grid lines will be displayed if you set the option Show grid. |
| Segments per geometry | The number of segments ?? |
| Style sheet | If checked, |
Colors
In the Colors tab you can specify the following:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Create new document at start up | If checked, FreeCAD will create a new document when started |
| Document save compression level | Specification of the compression level for FCStd files. FCStd files are ZIP-compressed files. Therefore you can rename their suffix .FCStd to .zip and open them with a ZIP archive program. |
| Using Undo/Redo on documents | If checked, all changes in documents are stored so that they can be undone/redone |
| Maximum Undo/Redo steps | Specification how many Undo/Redo steps should be recorded |
| Run AutoRecovery at startup | If there is a recovery file available FreeCAD will automatically run a file recovery when it is started. This way files can be restored if a crash occurred. |
| Save AutoRecovery information every | Specification how often a recovery file is written. |
| Save thumbnail into project file when saving document | If checked, also a thumbnail will be stored when the document is saved. The thumbnail will for example be shown in the list of recent files in the Start workbench. |
| Add the program logo to the generated thumbnail | If checked, the FreeCAD program logo  will be added to the thumbnail. This option only has an effect if Save thumbnail into project file when saving document is used.
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| Maximum number of backup files to keep when resaving document | If checked, backup files will be kept when saving the document. You can specify how many backup files will be kept. They contain the previously saved document version. The first backup file will have the file suffix .FCStd1, the second .FCStd2 and so on. |
| Allow duplicate object labels in one document | If checked, objects can have the same label/name. For example different parts or features can then have the same name in the same document. |
| Author name | All documents that will be created will get the specified author name. Keep the author field blank for an anonymous author. If the option Set on save is checked, the field Last modified by will be set to the specified author when saving the file. This field can be viewed using the menu File → Project information. |
| Company | All documents that will be created will get the specified company name |
| Default license | Selection of a default license for new documents. For predefined license the License URL will automatically be set accordingly. Select 'Other' for an own or special license. |
| License URL | Specification of an URL describing the license selected in Default license |