- 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/excellon/ExcellonPreferencesUI.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
+from PyQt5.QtCore import QSettings
 
 from flatcamGUI.preferences.excellon.ExcellonEditorPrefGroupUI import ExcellonEditorPrefGroupUI
 from flatcamGUI.preferences.excellon.ExcellonExpPrefGroupUI import ExcellonExpPrefGroupUI
@@ -6,6 +7,20 @@ from flatcamGUI.preferences.excellon.ExcellonAdvOptPrefGroupUI import ExcellonAd
 from flatcamGUI.preferences.excellon.ExcellonOptPrefGroupUI import ExcellonOptPrefGroupUI
 from flatcamGUI.preferences.excellon.ExcellonGenPrefGroupUI import ExcellonGenPrefGroupUI
 
+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
+
 
 class ExcellonPreferencesUI(QtWidgets.QWidget):
 
@@ -35,4 +50,4 @@ class ExcellonPreferencesUI(QtWidgets.QWidget):
         self.layout.addWidget(self.excellon_adv_opt_group)
         self.layout.addWidget(self.excellon_editor_group)
 
-        self.layout.addStretch()
+        self.layout.addStretch()