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Chapter 2 Getting Started with AutoCAD Land Development Desktop

Setting up Drawings

To create a new drawing without using a Wizard, or to change

drawing settings while working on an open drawing, you can use the

Drawing Setup dialog box. To display the Drawing Setup dialog box,

choose Drawing Setup from the Projects menu.

You can use this dialog box to select the current zone, and to adjust

the drawing units, the horizontal and vertical scales, the current text

style, and other settings.

Key Concepts

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You should set up the drawing units and scale based on your plot

scale.

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You can insert custom borders into your drawings.

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The precision values in the Drawing Setup dialog box control

displayed information and plotted labels, not the actual values that

are stored in the database, which are calculated to the highest

internal precision.

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After you modify the settings for a drawing, you can use the

Load/Save Settings tab to save the setup to a name so that you can

use the same settings for each drawing in a project.