Appendix 3. Changing defaults - sizes, colours, file locations.

Sizes.

Kitchen.

• Depth of base cabinets - this is the worktop depth, not the carcase depth.
• Double door threshold - units with a width upto and including this value will have a single door/drawer on the front. If a unit excedes this width, ArtiCAD will automatically split the door/drawer into two equal doors/drawers.
• Unit Heights - the values used when selecting small, medium or tall wall or tall base units.
• Show rendered doors - when changing range, show colour renders of the door.

Bathroom.

• Depth of base cabinets - this is the worktop depth, not the carcase depth.
• Double door threshold - units with a width upto and including this value will have a single door/drawer on the front. If a unit excedes this width, ArtiCAD will automatically split the door/drawer into two equal doors/drawers.
• Unit Heights - the values used when selecting small, medium or tall wall or tall base units.
• Show rendered doors - when changing range, show colour renders of the door.

Bedrooms and Studies.

• Base Cupboard Depth - this is the carcase depth.
• Worktop overhang - how far the worktop will overhang the front of the unit. Measured from the carcase.
• Double door threshold - units with a width upto and including this value will have a single door/drawer on the front. If a unit excedes this width, ArtiCAD will automatically split the door/drawer into two equal doors/drawers.
• Unit Heights - the values used when selecting small, medium or tall wall or tall base units.
• Show rendered doors - when changing range, show colour renders of the door.

Colours.

Change the colour scheme to the one you would like to be used as the default. Click "This Design" - "Photo Realism Colours" and then click the "Save as Default" button (highlighted in red, above). You will be asked to confirm overwriting the default colour scheme.

File locations.

WARNING - you will need to edit configuration files to change the default locations. Changing values within these files may stop your ArtiCAD system from working correctly. You are strongly advised to make a backup copy of the configuration file before making changes.

Kitchen designs are saved in a folder called "plans" within the "kitchen" folder which is itself within a folder called "articad". Bathroom designs are saved in a folder called "plans" with the "bathroom" folder and so on.

An increasingly common situation is to save designs onto a shared network drive or server. It is possible to configure ArtiCAD to look to this network drive by default.

Exit from ArtiCAD before editing configuration files.

Edit the relevant configuration file.

• Kitchens - c:\articad\kitchen\kitchen.ini
• Bathrooms - c:\articad\bathroom\bathroom.ini
• Bedrooms & Home Studies - c:\articad\bedroom\bedroom.ini

Within the configuration file, search for an entry "PlansDirectory". The line should look like this:

PlansDirectory=plans

Change it to the location you wish to become the new default. For example:

PlansDirectory=S:\kitchen_plans\

Where "S:" is a mapped network drive and "kitchen_plans" is a folder on that shared drive.

You may also wish to change the default location for your page layouts. Alter the value "PageLayoutsDirectory". For example:

PageLayoutsDirectory=S:\kitchen_layouts\