The Settings Library¶

The Library stores your proven marking settings as reusable templates and moves them between jobs. Open it from the Library menu — it's a floating window, so the Sequencer stays live behind it while you compare and apply settings.

The window has three columns:

Sources (left) — your saved templates, or another project file to borrow from.
Template settings (middle) — the full breakdown of the selected source: what's on offer.
Current file (right) — the job that's open right now: what will change.

Above the panes sits the mode selector — Update · Insert · Replace — which picks what the Library does with your selection:

Mode	What it does
Update	Copies values onto settings the job already has. Nothing is added or removed.
Insert	Adds structure from the template — sublayers, layers, groups, or whole actions. Nothing existing is touched.
Replace	Swaps one node for another, in place — same spot, new recipe.

Templates carry settings only — speeds, powers, fills, timings, structure — never artwork or part data. Your imported geometry always stays with the project, and anything inserted or replaced arrives with its rotary part values unset, so the run check reminds you to enter your part before marking.

Saving templates¶

Save as Template… (under the Current file column) captures the selected action's whole configuration — every group, layer, and sublayer with all their settings — plus a name, notes, and an optional reference image. The template remembers which action type it came from (2D Import, 2D Cut, 3D Slice, …).
A template can hold several actions: with a template open, + Act ▾ in the middle column adds another action of your chosen type, so one template can describe a whole job.
Manage templates from the list: Duplicate, Rename, Delete, and Lock (🔒 makes a template read-only so a good recipe can't be edited by accident — duplicate it to iterate).
Templates live on your machine, outside any project — they're available in every job.

Borrowing from another project¶

Switch the sources column from Templates to Files (.focuz) to open one of your recent project files (or Browse… for any other). Its actions appear read-only in the middle column, and every mode works from them exactly like a template — handy for "grab the settings from that job last month" without saving a template first.

Selecting — the same gestures everywhere¶

Both panes select the same way, and clicking anywhere in a pane makes it the active one (it draws a highlighted border; Ctrl+A and Esc act on the active pane):

Click a heading (action, group, layer, sublayer) to select everything under it.
Click a setting's name to select just that setting. The value next to it is for editing (templates are editable in place — change values, then Save or Revert).
Ctrl+click toggles one item in or out — carve a sublayer out of a selected layer, or add one more setting.
Shift+click extends across same-kind neighbours — three layers in a row, or a run of settings inside one section.
Ctrl+A selects everything in the pane; Esc clears it.

Selections persist when you switch modes — each mode simply grays what it can't use. Rotary part values are never selectable: they describe your physical part, not the recipe. A sublayer's Mode row isn't individually selectable either — changing what a sublayer is belongs to Replace.

Update — copy values onto matching settings¶

Update is deliberate: you select what's on offer on the left and what will change on the right, and the two selections must line up perfectly before the button arms.

Each selected setting needs its counterpart selected on the other side. A selected row with no matching selection turns gray — the gray rows are your to-do list, and the hint line names them. Select the counterpart, or deselect the row, and the gate opens.
Headings pair by position: Layer 2 on the left updates Layer 2 on the right. Action types must match, and sublayers pair with sublayers of the same mode.
Settings can also pair across kinds by name — select Power on a sublayer and Power on a layer, and the value flows across.
The comparison lights up while you work: ✓ on a heading when everything selected matches, ≠ N counting differences, and hovering a ≠ row shows the incoming value. The markers show only while exactly one clean pairing exists.
Changing a fill through Update selects the new fill's own settings automatically and locks them — they travel with the fill. Settings on the target that the new fill removes show in red italics; if one of them is selected, Update stays blocked until you deselect it, so nothing disappears without you seeing it.

Update current ▸ applies the values — nothing added, nothing deleted, one undo step.

Insert — add structure from the template¶

Insert copies whole nodes into the job:

Select whole sublayers and a layer on the right, whole layers and a group, or whole groups and an action — ◂ Insert appends them after what's already there. Names come along; nothing existing moves.
Select whole actions (or use Ctrl+A) with nothing chosen on the right, and they're appended to the job as new actions.
Carving is allowed — a layer minus one sublayer inserts without it — but a partially selected node blocks with its name: Insert copies whole nodes or none.
Containers that can't legally take your selection gray out, and their tooltip says why — a grayed row is exactly the error you'd otherwise hit on apply.
If a value lands outside what the target machine allows, it's clamped — and the confirmation preview says so before you commit.

Replace — swap a node, keep its place¶

Replace exchanges one node for another, exactly where it stands:

Select one whole node on the left and one of the same kind on the right. The whole outgoing subtree previews in red italics so you can see everything the swap removes.
Actions swap type-free — this is how a slot is re-made from a template of a different type. Groups and layers need matching action types. Sublayers may change mode through Replace (this is the one place mode conversion lives), as long as the target action supports that mode.
Replace ▸ performs the swap behind a preview, as a single undo step — undo restores the old node and any canvas art it owned.

Removing several things at once¶

Select any mix of actions, groups, layers, and sublayers in the Current file column and press Del — everything selected goes in one batch, and one Ctrl+Z brings it all back. The Library keeps at least one group per action and one layer per group; a batch that would empty one is blocked before anything happens. The + Act ▾ / + Grp / + Lyr / + Sub buttons still add structure to the live job, all undoable.

Timings and the delay/jump toggle¶

The Include delay and jump parameters checkbox (above the template settings, default off) decides whether timing travels:

Off — timing is entirely the current job's business: Timing Mode and the delay/jump settings are hidden on both sides and never move.
On — the template's Timing Mode travels. A Custom template brings its exact delay and jump values; a Device template tells the target to use the machine's own tuned timings.

Flipping the toggle starts both selections over — the visible settings are the coordinate system, so they reset together.

Device timing makes templates portable

Save templates with Timing Mode = Device when the recipe should work on more than one machine — each laser then marks with its own calibrated delays. Use Custom only when the exact microsecond values matter more than the machine.