Preferences General Tab

Use Full Screen Cross Hairs toggles the use of these supplements to the cursor  (F5)

Top tool bar visible you get more room by hiding the tool bar, at the cost of easy access to some of the features. 

Prompt Bar visible when you have the hang of the drawing operations, you might want to hide the prompt bar to gain some screen room

Selection Mode When you draw a box around elements to select them, you can select only elements that are entirely in the box, or all that have any part of them in the box.

Send Error Message Alerts  You can send alerts to Home Plan Pro support when errors occur. Clear this box to turn this feature off

Log Drawing Time Turn this on to make a log file to keep track of your time on individual plans. You can also specify how many entries you want to keep. The oldest entries over that number are purged.

Drawing Cursor Select a cursor to use for drawing. Test it in the box to the right.

Default Drawing Tool  Normally, the Line tool is active on startup and after you quit using a different tool.

You can elect to have no tool active in these circumstances, requiring you to select a tool button, or you can elect to have one of the Selection tools be the default.

Show Plan Size Dialog

You can have the Plan Size Dialog come up when you start a new plan, or bypass that dialog for a blank screen at the default zoom level.