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Emil Rindell
Jonas Bryntesson
Henrik Andersson
2025-09-16
Emil Rindell
Jonas Bryntesson
Henrik Andersson
2025-09-16
All tools in IC Mechanical automatically save their settings after you have used them. This can be, for example, which standard you last selected, whether you checked or unchecked any box, or which option you selected in a drop-down list.
The problem sometimes occurs when you update or change DataFiles (e.g. new catalog files or norm libraries). Then the program may have difficulty reading the old saved settings, which leads to an error message at startup - usually something like "Error during initialization of UI".
This is where the Reset function (Clear All Application Settings Stored in Previous Sessions) comes in. It simply clears all saved user settings from previous sessions and forces the program to create new, fresh default settings at the next startup. In almost all these cases, it solves the problem right away.
Yes - it is completely harmless for the program itself, your drawings and your own data tables in IC Mechanical. The only drawback is that all personal changes you have made in the interface (e.g. selected norms, checkboxes, favorite settings in the tools) in the current session will be lost and reset to factory default. Note that this does NOT affect your own values in data files etc.
The next time the application starts, all settings are recreated and the UI initialization error is normally gone.
In short: when you encounter mysterious errors after updating catalogs or norms - try the Reset button first. It takes 10 seconds and solves the problem in 99 cases out of 100!
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