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Drawing Scales and Units
Both metric and imperial standards are supported for paper sizes, drawing units, data units and scales.
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Choose the Units tab from the Project Options dialog to select drawing and data units.
- Choose Page Setupusing theProjectbutton
Metric and Imperial Scales
Scale labels and scale bars will automatically reflect the current units settings. Metric scales are expressed as simple ratios i.e. a scale of 1:1000 means that one meter plotted represents 1000 meters in real world coordinates. Imperial scales however are expressed as the ratio of drawing units to data units i.e. 1" = 100' means that one inch plotted represents 100 feet in real world coordinates.
An imperial scale of 1" = 100' is thus equivalent to a metric scale of 1:1200 (1" = 100 x 12").
