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<a name="19"></a><h1>19 Drawing Preferences</h1>
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The drawing preferences dialog applies to the current drawing only.
It's used to set the drawing units, paper size, dimensioning
preferences, etc.
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Edit - Drawing Preferences</p>
<a name="19_1"></a><h2>Paper</h2>
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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).
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<b>Figure 68: </b>
Paper settings for the current drawing.</p>
<a name="19_2"></a><h2>Units</h2>
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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
<a href="appendix_units.html">Appendix - Drawing Units</a> for a
detailed overview of the available units and formats
(Figure 69).
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<b>Figure 69: </b>
Unit and unit format.</p>
<a name="19_3"></a><h2>Dimensions</h2>
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On this tab you can change the measures for the dimension labels, the
dimension arrow size and other meaasures used for dimensioning
(Figure 70).
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<b>Figure 70: </b>
Dimension preferences.</p>
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<b>Figure 71: </b>
Dimension measures.</p>
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