- made some corrections - due of recent refactoring PyCharm reported errors all over (not correct but it made programming difficult)

- modified the requirements.txt file to force svg.path module to be at least version 4.0

flatcamGUI/preferences/PreferencesUIManager.py

@@ -3,6 +3,21 @@ from PyQt5 import QtGui, QtCore, QtWidgets
 from PyQt5.QtCore import QSettings
 from defaults import FlatCAMDefaults
 import logging
+
+import gettext
+import FlatCAMTranslation as fcTranslate
+import builtins
+
+fcTranslate.apply_language('strings')
+if '_' not in builtins.__dict__:
+    _ = gettext.gettext
+
+settings = QSettings("Open Source", "FlatCAM")
+if settings.contains("machinist"):
+    machinist_setting = settings.value('machinist', type=int)
+else:
+    machinist_setting = 0
+
 log = logging.getLogger('PreferencesUIManager')
 
 
@@ -1113,4 +1128,4 @@ class PreferencesUIManager:
             else:
                 self.preferences_changed_flag = False
                 self.inform.emit('')
-                return
+                return