Dimension without unit marks   Dimension with unit marks

Setting up the measurement system You can use the Units Setup command to open the Units Setup dialog box and choose the US or metric measurement system. When you launch DenebaCAD the first time, US is the default measurement system, and the program displays measurements in feet and decimal inches. If you use US measurements displayed as feet and inches in your work, you need not make changes in the Units Setup dialog box. If you use the metric measurement system, choose metric in the System pop-up menu. If you use units other than the default units, choose the units you want to use in the Linear pop-up menu. To create the plan and interior elevations of a house, you might want to change the units in the Linear pop-up menu from feet and decimal inches to feet and fractional inches. In this case, choose 1'3-1/2" in the Linear pop-up menu. Object dimensions will appear as feet and fractional inches. To create cabinet and millwork drawings for a house, you might want to choose inches as the units. In this case, choose 15-1/2" in the Linear pop-up menu so object dimensions appear in inches. When you use a Linear option that displays only inches or only feet in measurements, you can select the Show Unit Marks check box to display foot and inch tick marks in measurements. In the case of a millwork drawing in inches, you might not want tick marks in dimension text. In this situation, you would deselect the Show Unit Marks option. You might find that you don't need to change many of the options in the Units Setup dialog box. For example, if you are creating working drawings of a house, you won't select the Scientific Notation option, which displays numerical values as a base value and an exponent. If you want the settings in the Units Setup dialog box to be the default settings for every new document, click Default. Refer to the Units Setup command in the Layout menu chapter to learn how to configure all of the settings in the dialog box.

Setting up output You can use the Output Setup command to set up a DenebaCAD project for printing. You always print drawings from Draft mode. A Draft mode window can contain 2D objects, sections obtained from 3D objects, and images copied from a Render mode window. The Document Scale you select in the Output Setup dialog box affects an entire document. If you are accustomed to working in more than one scale, you can set up a document for each scale, and use the simple Publish and Subscribe commands to place drawings at various scales into a Draft mode window for printing. It is important to set the scale and specify the number of pages in the document before you begin drawing objects, so that you can work within the boundaries of the pages. The page size and scale, as well as the page orientation, determine the placement of page breaks. If you want to view the print area of the document, select "Display Page Breaks on Screen" to display the page boundaries. You should work with the page breaks visible if you want to be sure that you are working within the print area

Setting a scale DenebaCAD offers many of the most common architectural and engineering scales. You can use one of the preset scales in the Architectural or Engineering pop-up menus, or you can enter a custom scale in the Custom text box. If you are setting up a document to draw plans and interior elevations of a house, you might want to select the 1/4"=1'-0" scale. To develop details of the house you might select 1-1/2"=1'-0" scale. You can also specify how many pages you can print from the document. You can set up the document so that the plan prints on one page and the elevations print on another. To do this, enter "2" in the Pages text box and "1" in the by Pages text box. DenebaCAD displays the two pages side by side. Page breaks displayed on screen Note that even though you print the pages on separate sheets of paper, the scale you specify is the same for both. After you configure output settings, you might need to use the Page Setup command in the File menu to set the page orientation. It is common to use landscape orientation for printing drawings. Click the landscape orientation button to set the paper orientation to landscape. Landscape Orientation You can refer to the Output Setup command in the Layout menu chapter to learn how to configure all of the settings in the dialog box. Refer to the Page Setup command in the File menu to learn more about the Page Setup dialog box.

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