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19 Drawing Preferences

The drawing preferences dialog applies to the current drawing only. It's used to set the drawing units, paper size, dimensioning preferences, etc.

Edit - Drawing Preferences

Paper

The paper settings are only relevant when printing a drawing. The paper format and orientation that you choose in this dialog will be applied to the print preview (Figure 68).

Figure 68:  Paper settings for the current drawing.

Units

The chosen units and unit formats for lengths and angles are used for co-ordinates displayed in the statusbar, dimension labels and to scale inserted parts from the part library correctly. See Appendix - Drawing Units for a detailed overview of the available units and formats (Figure 69).

Figure 69:  Unit and unit format.

Dimensions

On this tab you can change the measures for the dimension labels, the dimension arrow size and other meaasures used for dimensioning (Figure 70).

Figure 70:  Dimension preferences.

Figure 71:  Dimension measures.

   
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