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Hello friends Welcome To freead tutorial
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in our previous tutorial we have learned
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free installation and its user interface
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in this tutorial we will learn how we
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can customize the free Cas user
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interface as per our
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description so here I have open freead
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user interface and I have open a very
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simple part to customize the user
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interface go to the edit and then go to
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the
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preferences and uh here on the journal
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tab you will see the language options
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you can change your desired language
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from the here unit systems you can
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select unit from here if you are from
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the US then you can select
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inch or whatever the unit you require it
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it has the mm inches everything is here
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and from here you can select the number
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of decimal
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places if you are using the in system
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then set it to the three decimal
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places number format operating system
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stylesheet stylesheet is nothing but the
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themes you can select your desired theme
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for
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example you can uh select here the pro
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dark and if you apply
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it so you can see that uh my free Cat
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theme has been changed to the Dark theme
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dark themes are very useful uh if you
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are working in a night because it puts
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less stress on your eyes now we again go
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to the
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settings and here I will uh set it to
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the no Style sheet if you select here no
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style sheet means it will use the
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default
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theme and uh size of a toolbar icon so
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these are the toolbar icon if you have a
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visibility issue then you can change it
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to the larger size for example you can
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change it to the
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32 and if you change it to the 32 you
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you can see that uh my icon size has
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been
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increased I will again send change it to
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the medium which is
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okay uh Tree View mode is combo view
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this is the combo view uh when we will
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do we will see it the combo view when
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we'll do any part
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modeling size of the recent file list 4
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if you go here in a free and you will
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see the recent file so here my default
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setting is a four recent file you can
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increase up to the 10 so that whenever
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you hover on the recent file your mouse
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then you will get the 10 recent file
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list and uh here is
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the theme pack Dark theme light theme
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and classic theme you can use any theme
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as per your requirement now go to to the
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document
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section and
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here uh you can uh save Auto Recovery
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information you can increase that time
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or decrease your time so that uh if you
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reduce it to the 5 minutes then after
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every 5 minutes free cat will save the
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backup
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copy and uh keep uh rest of the things
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as default then select setion here uh
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you can also set this settings as a
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default do not change this this
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also here is the report view options
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so report view you can uh by clicking on
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here on report view you can activate the
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report View and here on the setting
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page you can uh select what the report
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view should
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show now we will switch to the display
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sections in a display section show
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coordinate system in the corner so here
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at the corner it will show you the axis
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x y and
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Zed so the show The Cross axis by
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default this is your choice and uh keep
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sitting as default navigations number of
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Tate here so keep this settings as
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default colors colors is
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a your uh depends upon your visibility
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you can change it now go to the
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workbenches so workbenches I will uh
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explain you what are the workbenches
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then we will come to the
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here so workbenches are uh nothing but a
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Tools in a
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freead and some of the workbenches are
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the default workbenches which comes with
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the freead installations and some
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workbenches are uh developed by the
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independent developers so to install the
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workbenches go to the tool then addon
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manager and uh here you will uh get the
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option for the
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workbenches like here I have uh
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installed the a to
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plus I have already installed it so
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install any
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workbenches just select the workbench
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and install it for example this dodo
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workbench you can just click on install
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and you can install the
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workbenches so this is the
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workbench setting which will we
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understand we will go to the edit then
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preferences and the
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workbenches so if you click on the
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autoload options so that uh that
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workbench will load when you restart
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your
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freead then here is the python module if
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you are a python expert then uh you can
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go for the this options
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python then addon manager keep sitting
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as
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default
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and uh from export and import export and
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import
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uh here you will get the supported files
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uh which free cat support for example
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step you can customize the settings for
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the step IGS but I would
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recommend keep setting as default until
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and unless you have the clear idea or
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clear understanding because if you
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misconfigure this settings then uh uh
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you will hardly able to find out what
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went
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wrong so uh most common file standard we
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use is uh dxf DWG and IGS and step for
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3D it is IGS and step and for the step
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file uh you can select
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the schemes available here
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so ap214 is the international standard
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keypad is default and then we will go to
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the start start
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page on start
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page when you start the free C then you
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can set the your default workbench for
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example uh I used
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to uh use a part design workbench a lot
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for part modeling so I want that
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whenever I restart the freead then part
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design workbench should load by default
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so here is you can set your default
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workbench
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bench then here is
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a shape and appearances
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measures you
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can customize the setting and here is a
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major
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setting so I would uh give brief intro
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about it what it exactly is so in freead
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we have the option of a measuring tool
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for example uh I wanted to measure the
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distance between this point to this
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point so I will select the major I will
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select this age and this age so you can
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see that uh free cat showing the
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dimension in x y and Zed
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directions but I want uh to change the
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color of the dimension which you can
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easily do so go to the edit and let
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preferences here in the measure instead
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of this red uh I want yellow for
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example I will say okay and apply I will
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clear the dimensions and I again measure
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it this point to this a so you can see
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that red has been removed and yellow has
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came so you can uh give the color as per
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your
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choice and for the Sketcher Sketcher is
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very important I will uh you the
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Sketcher
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settings let's understand for example I
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create a a part and my background color
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is a gradient type so if I create a body
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and I create a sketch on exit plane and
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I say
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sketch and if I draw a simple
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rectangle
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and I give the
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dimensions so you can see that
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uh my Dimension color is yellow because
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I have set it to the
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yellow but if you are using any
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uh light background then uh this yellow
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color will not be uh look good so for
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this go to the edit and preferences and
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go to the Sketcher and colors so here is
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a dimension constraint color so I Will
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Show You by changing one color instead
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of this yellow I give the pink and I say
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apply so you can see that my Dimension
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color has been changed so in Sketcher
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color uh you can uh change the color
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setting as per the your theme if you're
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using the Dark theme then you should use
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white color or any light color which
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would reflect uh which will looks good
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on your theme so in this case I keep it
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to the
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yellow now uh we have created this
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rectangle now we
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will switch to the part
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design and I close it and I create a pad
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so here on the pad here is
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a we have when we edit any
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feature
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so in a model and task there are two
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tabs in model tabs we get the tree in
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task tabs the current feature which we
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are working
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on now we will go to
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the settings page so we have covered all
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the settings available here and uh if
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you install any workbench then you will
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also get that settings for example if I
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go with the tech draw and I go to the
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edit and
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preferences then I will also get the
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tech draw settings so this settings is
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applicable when we are going to create a
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2d drawing in free
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cat and one more uh thing I wanted to uh
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explain that uh instead of
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uh
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workbenches you can also use the micros
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micros is nothing but the python script
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and uh you can install in the same way
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you install the
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workbenches and you can also customize
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your mouse setting for Mouse setting you
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can use the available Mouse setting
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available here for blender for CAD
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gestures op scad RIT you can visit the
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freead Wikipedia page which I will show
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you you can visit this uh free.or g/
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Mouse navigations you can understand how
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the mouse navigations works for the
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blender CAD navigations gesture
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navigations Maya gesture navigation and
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according to that you can set your mouse
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setting so this is uh all about how to
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customize the free CAD user
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interface thank you for watching and
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thank you for your valuable
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time