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Setup

Setting up your drawing experience.

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Last updated 19 days ago

Accessing your preferences

The default preferences are setup in your 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

Navigation mode

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.

Stroke scale

In Rayon, stroke width are measured in paper size (e.g. 0.5mm or1/64"), that is, the size at which the thickness of lines will be on a printed paper.

However, the Stroke scale property allows you to tune how lines appear on your screen. This allows you to change the appearance of line thicknesses while you work on your model.

For more step-by-step information, watch our tutorial about how to set up your model in Rayon:

We're always available!

You may choose the Mouse or Trackpad navigation mode. .

When you export your drawing to PNG or PDF (See and ), the paper size (e.g. A4) and the paper scale (e.g. 1:50) are used to compute the exact thickness of lines on the exported document.

Feel free to email us at .

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