You can configure the default settings of major functionalities in Create using the Preferences windows. Preferences can be accessed under the "Edit" tab.

   

Available Options under Preferences

General

Autosave

Allows you to enable and disable the Auto-save setting. Auto-save interval can be set up in minutes.

Units

Allows you to set the measurement unit display in Centimeters, Millimeters, Inches, Feet, Yards and Meters. This will affect how units are displayed throughout the software. For example, 1 meter will be displayed as 1000mm, when changing from meters to millimeters.

This setting can also be seen in the bottom toolbar, clicking the measurement unit there will open up the preferences window as well.

Import Size

Allows you to set up Image and Video Import size.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• This can be used to assign shortcut keys to major tasks in Create. These include: Transform Gizmo, Camera Utilities, Camera Movement, Window, Scenario, Simulation, Timeline and Object Visibility.

Scene View

• Drag selection mode allows you to select top parents or lowest children respectivily.
• First click selects parent mode allows you to toggle first click to be either the top parent or child closest to the camera.

Asset Library

• Asset Library allows the hiding of additional dialogues when deleting or editing assets. After using "Don't show again" in the warning message, you could revert to showing it again here.

Sequence Editor

• This can be used to enable/disable the display of sequence connections, header connections, options connections, insets connections, cancel connections and connections flow for your project.

Timeline Editor

• Timeline Editor - Allows you to set up default timeline and timebar length in seconds.
• Timebar Properties - Allows you to set up default highlight sphere color, diameter and object color.
• Timebar Display Colors - Allows you to set up colors for Event invocation, object color, fade object in/out. highlight sphere, animation playback, translate, rotate, rotate around pivot, scale, video playback, audio playback.

Object Properties

• Callout - Allows you to set up default Callout size and the default Callout Offset.

We also have a great community post about it here.

 

Default Values

Item	Factory setting
Height of image/video import	0.1m
The default size of primitives (basic 3D objects: cube, cylinder)	0.1m
Origin of primitives (cube and cylinder)	Bottom of primitive & aligned to project.
Callout default size	0.1
Callout default offset	0.3,0.3,0
Minimum grid size	0.01m
Highlight sphere default size	0.1m
Camera navigation speed	relative to the focused object
Focusing on an Empty object (camera distance to origin)	0.3m
Surface tracker size	0.1m