How to manually edit your Skeinforge profiles in Windows
Slicing with style
Gian Pablo’s excellent tutorial on how to manually edit Skeinforge profiles on Mac OS X got me thinking that manually editing Skeinforge profiles isn’t exactly intuitive for just about any operating system. 1 For instance, Windows Vista will store Skeinforge settings in one of two locations. These profiles are located either in a sub-folder where you have ReplicatorG installed or a sub-folder of your user profile.
- Location of Skeinforge Settings in ReplicatorG
- replicatorg-0024\skein_engines\skeinforge-35\skeinforge_application\prefs
- Location of Skeinforge Settings under User Profile
- C:\Users\USERNAME\.replicatorg\sf_35_profiles
The settings folder within the ReplicatorG sub-folder should contain a series of sub-folders with the stock profiles:
- SF35-cupcake-ABP
- SF35-cupcake-HBP
- SF35-Thingomatic-ABP
- SF35-Thingomatic-ABP-Stepstruder
- SF35-Thingomatic-ABP-Stepstruder-1.75
- SF35-Thingomatic-HBP
- SF35-Thingomatic-HBP-Stepstruder
- SF35-Thingomatic-HBP-Stepstruder-1.75
- SF35-Thingomatic-non-heated
It seems that when you create a new Skeinforge profile within ReplicatorG the new settings profile will be stored under your User Profile. The profiles themselves are basically a collection of text documents laid out in the exact order you would see them in when viewing Skeinforge. Changing the settings manually is merely a matter of opening one of those text documents in a text editor and changing the relevant values.
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4 Comments so far
Dave Durant
To get to your user directory on any version of windows, you can also use the %userprofile% environment variable. You can put that, %userprofile% , in start->run or windows explorer or internet explorer and it will take you to the right place..
It’s a handy trick when you switch back and forth from xp to win7 a lot.. It works on both.
DocProfSky
In windows XP the directory is C:\Program files\(your user name)\.replicatorg
Brian Stott
He pointed at the wrong directory. For the ReplicatorG under your user directory is: C:\Documents and Settings\\.replicatorg
Brian Stott
Ugh…. The script for submission here took out symbols…. The directory is: C:\Documents and Settings\(user name)\.replicatorg