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Appendix 3. Changing Defaults - Sizes, Colours, File Locations.

Sizes

Changing the dimensions of your units under "This Design" - "Room Settings" will only change the settings for the current design. When you start a new design, the values under "Room Settings" will revert to the defaults.

To change the default sizes, click "Special" - "Edit current room system ini". The settings will vary depending on the room system.

Once you have made changes click the "Save" button at the bottom of the window. Click "Cancel" to ignore any changes you have made.

Changes will take effect when you start a new design.

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.

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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.

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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\

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