Draft Preferences

The preferences for the Draft Workbench can be found in the Preferences Editor. In the menu select and then.

There are five tabs: General settings, User interface settings, Grid and snapping, Visual settings and Texts and dimensions.

Some advanced preferences can only be changed in the Parameter editor. See Fine-tuning.

This page is being updated for version 0.22.

In some preferences may appear on a different tab, and in more cases FreeCAD must be restarted after changing a preference.

General settings
On the General settings tab you can specify the following:



User interface settings
On the User interface settings tab you can specify the following:



Grid and snapping
Note that several grid preferences can also be changed with the Draft SelectPlane command. This command will update the grid in the current 3D view in real-time.

On the Grid and snapping tab you can specify the following:



Visual settings
On the Visual settings tab you can specify the following:



Texts and dimensions
These preferences are the defaults used when creating new objects. Changing them does not affect existing objects.

On the Texts and dimensions tab you can specify the following: