The way Unity does this may be relevant here: allow the user to save a series 
of 
settings as a named set, and use an always-available drop-down list to select 
those settings "live."  That way a series of settings can be used and switched 
between depending on the file loaded into LeoCAD at a given moment.

    -- joshua

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>  I was undecided about the best way to save the view layout so I ended up not 
>saving it at all, I'm still not sure if it's better to have it saved per 
>project 
>or globally. I like saving it globally more but then the camera positions 
>won't 
>make much sense when loading different files.
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>On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>I love this program! Being away from my LEGOs at home is kind of a drag. I had
>>0.75.2 for a couple months and it worked pretty well for me. (Cosmetically the
>>interface of the new version looks more polished, which isn't a big deal for 
me
>>but is very nice nonetheless.)
>>
>>My issue is that none of my preferences are being saved after I close Leocad. 
I
>>save my own keyboard shortcuts and like to have a four-panel view, but after
>>setting them, doing a bit of work and closing the program, I reopen it and 
it's
>>back to default shortcuts and 1-camera view. Is there something I'm doing 
>wrong?
>>
>>Also, I read that you couldn't figure out a good way to select a plane for the
>>mirror function. I would really love to see this worked out since it'd really 
>be
>>a pain to have to rebuild some of my wings from scratch.
>>Would it be possible to select a face of a piece as the mirroring plane? Or
>>perhaps after selecting the pieces to be mirrored, allow the user to select 
any
>>piece already in the 3d space to project a plane (or a rectangular plate with 
0
>>thickness) on its xyz axes?
>>I don't know, the problem is probably more difficult than that! Just an idea,
>>cause I'd really love to be able to mirror.
>>
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