Setup

Setting up your drawing experience.

Accessing your preferences

The default preferences are setup in your user preferences. Learn more about user preferences.

You may access your model's preferences from multiple areas in the editor. From the properties panel...

From the top left menu...

From the bottom right menu...

Modes & preferences

You may choose the Mouse or Trackpad navigation mode. Learn more about how to pan and zoom in the editor.

Command mode

You can switch between Shortcut or Command line to trigger commands.

Wireframe mode

The wireframe mode allows you to focus on precision.

All lines are displayed with a stroke of 1px and colored based on their layer.
Solid, texture and image fills are disabled.
Hatch fills are enabled.

Grid mode

The grid mode allows you to display a background grid.

Snapping modes

Rayon offers a variety of snapping options.

Units & precision

The units and the decimal/fraction precision of lengths and areas can be fine-tuned in your models.

Line scale

In Rayon, you describe your line strokes in paper size (e.g. 0.5mm or1/64"). This is the size at which the lines would be on a printed paper.

To have a coherent display of the line strokes in the editor, we need a temporary display scale. This is the Line scale property. To get the size of the line on screen we multiply its paper size by the factor of the scale. So a 0.05mm line with a line scale of 1:10, will be drawn as a 0.5mm line on screen.

When you export your drawing to .png or .png (See Pages and Exporting models), you specify a size (e.g. A4) and a scale (e.g. 1:50). These settings will be used to export your model on paper space.

More on Line scale with an illustrated example