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      How to ensure my PowerMill preferences load upon startup?

      You can save custom settings such as shading tolerance, feed rate, and NC preferences to be defined in a startup macro in PowerMill.

      Solution 1

      Edit the default pmuser.mac file, which stores custom startup settings.
      The default file can be found at C:\Program Files\Autodesk\PowerMill <version number>\lib\macro\.
      1. Open PowerMill
      2. Select Home > Macro > Record to start recording a macro > save this macro to a desired location
      3. Set the required parameters in PowerMill and stop the macro
      4. Open the macro using Notepad++ or similar, then copy the required parameters from the recorded macro and paste them into the pmuser.mac
      5. Close PowerMill, the next time you open PowerMill, the new settings should take effect

      Note: pmuser.mac will be deleted should PowerMill be uninstalled.

       

      Solution 2

      A more permanent solution to setting up a macro and keeping it on the PC even if the PowerMill software is uninstalled, is to make a copy of the default pmuser.mac and save it in another location on the PC, then point PowerMill to this macro.
       
      1. Use solution 1 as a starting point, but copy the pmuser.mac and paste to a location with read/write access.
      2. Open PowerMill.
      3. Go to File > Options > Customise Paths > Macro Paths
      4. Point to the directory where the copied pmuser.mac is located and restart PowerMill