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
Navigation mode
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
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