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Editing and managing options

Editing and managing options - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Editing and managing options

- We're staying in our convertingunits.dgw file and we're going to have a little look now at some other settings that we might want to change. And one of those is the scale list in AutoCAD. Now, in the previous video we scaled up our rectangle and changed our units to make it into a metric rectangle. The problem is, is our annotation scale down here on the status bar, is still displaying not only metric scales but also imperial scales. So ideally what we want, is we want this to be set to 1:1 like so. And then we click on it again and 1:1 is now ticked. If I come down, all the way down using the slider bar there's a custom option. If I go there, you'll notice now I've got the option to reset. Don't worry about editing drawing scales, it's just this reset button we need. And it gives us the option to restore a default list of scales. So I've got a choice, metric, imperial, or both metric and imperial. Now considering…

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