QCad User Reference Manual
|  |  | # 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 70). Figure 70: 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 71). Figure 71: 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 72). Figure 72: Dimension preferences. Figure 73: Dimension measures.
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