Sketcher Preferences

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

There are four tabs: General, Grid, Display and Colors.

General
On the General tab you can specify the following:



Grid
On the Grid tab you can specify the following:



Display
On the Display tab you can specify the following:



Colors
On the Colors tab you can specify the following colors. Unless otherwise stated the colors are only used while a sketch is in edit mode.

Hint: The color for selections inside sketches is the global selection setting, see the Preferences Editor.



Note
There is another preference that has an influence on sketches. If the preference on the Display → 3D View tab is set to, the arrowheads on one end of sketcher dimensions are hidden if  is deactivated in the Edit controls section of the Task panel. This applies to FreeCAD version 0.19, version 0.20 and recent development versions (up to 0.21-30058, at least) except Link branch.