Drawing Options
Scale
The scale can be adjusted by moving the slider control.
Clicking on the scale indicator will toggle it between 1"=X' and 1:X formats.
Clicking on the
popup menu arrow will present you with a popup menu of some common scale settings. You can also
choose Custom from the popup menu to enter your own ratios.
Choosing Scale Current Layer to Window will set the scale so that the current
layer will fill the screen.
Screen Centric vs. Printer Centric
The drawing can be set to either Screen Centric or to Printer Centric.
Screen Centric lets you use your entire screen for the drawing area. This gives
you a larger drawing area, but makes printing to a single sheet of paper more
difficult. Printer Centric limits your drawing area to the size of your
printer's page setup, but printing to a single sheet of paper is easy. Printer
Centric defaults to a 8"x10.5" paper size, but can be changed using the
Page Setup menu option.
Origin
The starting point for the drawing can also be set.
Auto Center - Causes the plot to remain centered in the drawing unless you manually move it.
Top Left - Causes the starting point of the first call to be drawn in the upper, left hand corner of the drawing.
Top Right - Causes the starting point of the first call to be drawn in the upper, right hand corner of the drawing.
Bottom Left - Causes the starting point of the first call to be drawn in the lower, left hand corner of the drawing.
Bottom Right - Causes the starting point of the first call to be drawn in the lower, right hand corner of the drawing.
Center of Drawing - Causes the starting point of the first call to be drawn in the center of the drawing. Unlike the Auto-Center option, this only keeps the starting point centered in the drawing and does not keep the entire plot centered in the drawing.
The Auto Center option is useful for single layer drawings. The other five options are useful when multiple layers share the same starting point.
View Settings
Show Area
Choosing this option will draw the selected area measurement in the upper
left hand corner of the drawing. You can choose to show the area with 0 to 5
decimal places.
The number of decimal points chosen here will also be used for other area
displays such as label placeholders and
layer area captions.
Show Scale
This option toggles the visibility of the scale tape. If the scale is
visible, you can also select which corner of the drawing that you want it to be
drawn in. The scale defaults to feet, but the unit of measurement can be changed
to any of the supported units of measurement using the units popup menu.
Show North Arrow
This option toggles the visibility of the north arrow. If the arrow is
visible, you can also select which corner of the drawing that you want it to be
drawn in. There are also several different styles of arrow that can be chosen
from the Style popup menu.
Show Border
This option draws a thick border around the entire drawing. This can be
useful for print outs.
Show Watermark
This option will draw a watermark in the center of the drawing. The
watermark will be the text entered in the watermark text field.
Labels and Text
The Labels and Text button will bring on the Label Manager
form.
Pictures
Clicking this button will bring up a popup menu. Choosing Background Picture
from the popup menu will bring up the Background
Picture form. Choosing Snapshots will bring up the
Snapshots form.
Title Block
This button will bring up the Title Block form. To make the title block
visible, check the Show Title Block checkbox. You can choose to anchor the title
block in the lower-left or the lower-right of the drawing. The title block
fields can also use the % placeholders.
Style 1:
There are 6 fields that you can enter data into. Directly beneath the data fields is a preview of what the title block will look like.
Style 2:
Style 2 of the Title Block will show a custom label, the set date, the drawing's scale, the file path, and information about the drawing such as the current layers area and call list.
Section Finder
See Section Finder.