You can configure some parameters that make working with the document more comfortable.
Scale
Units of Measure
Color Palette
When you are drawing a layout that represents a large real-world object, you may have to use scale (e.g. 1 cm = 1 m). The Scale of the document can be specified in the Document Properties dialog (File / Document Properties), on the Settings tab.
In the dialog you cane choose one of the standard preset ISO scales:
1:1000, 1:500, 1:200, 1:100, 1:50, 1:25, 1:20, 1:10, 1:5, 1:2.5, 1:2, 2:1, 5:1,
10:1, 20:1, 50:1.
If the Metric (ISO) option is active, you can choose
one of these standard values from the drop-down list.
If you need a custom scale, choose the Custom option and specify the desired proportion in the corresponding fields: e.g. 1 = 3, 1 in = 1 ft, 1 cm = 1 km, etc.
The default scale is 1:1. If you need to use another scale for many or all future documents, save that scale configuration in a template file, and create all new documents from this template.
For more information about the Document Properties dialog see Dialogs - Modal Dialogs - Document Properties.
The application uses certain units of measure for all numeric values which
are entered and displayed.
The following units of measure are supported:
For dimensions and distances:
| inches, decimal | in |
| inches, fractional | in |
| feet, decimal | ft |
| feet, decimal inches | ft, in |
| feet, fractional inches | ft, in |
| yards | yd |
| miles | mi |
| millimeters | mm |
| centimeters | cm |
| meters | m |
| kilometers | km |
For angles:
| degrees | deg |
| radians | rad |
For font size:
| points | pt |
You can see the currently used units of measure in the top left-hand corner of the document window, where the horizontal and the vertical rulers meet.
You can specify the units of measurement for the active document in the Document Properties dialog, on the Settings tab (menu File / Document Properties).
If you constantly work with the units of measure other than default, you can
set them to be used constantly in all new documents.
Call the Preferences dialog (menu Edit / Preferences)
and go to the Default tab.
Choose a new value in the Units Of Measure field.
Then each new document will use these units of measure.
Note: In any input field of ConceptDraw dialogs, you can specify values in the measurement systems other than default. Just put the appropriate suffix after the number, e.g. 13 in, 2 mm, 6.5 ft.
For more information about the Document Properties dialog see Dialogs - Modal Dialogs - Document Properties.
When you choose a line or fill color from the corresponding button menus on the toolbar, you may need other colors than those offered in the menus. You may click "More Colors" in the bottom of the menu to bring up the Color dialog. It lets you pick any of the 256 colors, which make up the color palette of the document.
For more information about the Color dialog see Dialogs - Modal Dialogs - Color.
See also:
Dialogs - Modal Dialogs - Document Properties.