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Choose your boards folder

Tell the program which folder to save your boards, STLs, images and drawings in, and whether to ask you every time or save straight there.

Level 1 · Getting started · Design · 4 min

Before this: A tour of the interface.

In four minutes you’ll have everything you save in a single folder, and you’ll decide whether the program asks you where to save or saves straight there.

You need URO Board Designer open, with a board in the viewer. Have the folder in mind: it can be one you already have or a new one you create in Windows first.

1. Open the settings

On the right-hand bar, just below Library (L), there’s the Settings wheel. Click it.

Result: the MY BOARDS FOLDER panel opens. If you haven’t chosen one yet, it says “No folder of your own: you are asked where to save every time.”

2. Choose the folder

  1. Click Choose folder….
  2. Find your folder in the Windows dialog and confirm it.

Result: the path appears at the top of the panel and the button changes to Change…. Next to it you get Remove.

3. Decide whether you want to be asked

Below there are two options:

  • Save there without asking: every time you save, the file goes straight to your folder with the name the program suggests. No dialog appears.
  • Ask every time (the dialog starts in that folder): the usual save dialog appears, but already open in your folder. You can change the name or save somewhere else.

The first time, Ask every time is selected. Each change is saved right away and a message confirms it.

Tip: if you save lots of versions in a row, use Save there without asking. If you like to name each file yourself, leave Ask every time.

4. What gets saved there

The folder applies to everything the program saves:

  • Your .s3dx boards.
  • STLs.
  • Conversions.
  • Images.
  • Drawings.
  • What you download from the library, which goes into its own Biblioteca subfolder inside your folder.

5. You never lose a file

With Save there without asking, the program never replaces a file. If one with the same name already exists, it adds “(2)” to the new one, then “(3)”, and so on.

Result: if you save my board.s3dx twice, your folder will have my board.s3dx and my board (2).s3dx.

6. Change or remove the folder

  • Change… opens the dialog again so you can pick another folder. What you’ve already saved stays where it was.
  • Remove leaves the program without a folder of its own: it goes back to asking where to save, as at the start.

Common mistake: deleting or moving the folder, or choosing one on an external drive that you later unplug. The program doesn’t save to a folder that doesn’t exist: the panel warns you with “This folder no longer exists: until you choose another one, you are asked where to save.” Pick another one with Change… or plug the drive back in.

Next step

Open a board and save it: check that it ends up in your folder.