Right-click on the rulers or icons to toggle between displaying the rulers at the Document/User Origin or at the View Origin. Unless you change the Ruler’s Properties/Options manually, it will always display at the Document or User Origin (if a User Origin is defined), with “D” and “U” icons indicating which Origin is being displayed, as explained above. This icon appears when you have selected the Move Ruler (Set View Origin) command from the Ruler pop- up menu and are in the process of defining your new origin.Ĭhanging the Options/Properties of the Ruler Tool: In addition to this icon, when you define a View Origin, the rulers change their background color, visually alerting you that the current origin is not the Document or User Origin. You can set a different View Origin for each of the following views: CAD mode’s Wireframe tab, and/or each of the Quad tab’s three drawing quadrants. This icon indicates that the Ruler’s origin is displayed at the current view’s Origin. Then click in the location to set the new origin or type the origin coordinates.) (To define a User Origin, click Tools > Set User Origin. This icon indicates that the Ruler’s origin is displayed at the User Origin, when the User Origin is defined. For the other wysiwyg venues, the origin is at the center of the venue, on the floor. In the case of the Proscenium Arch venue, the origin is the point at which the venue’s center line intersects the “plaster line”-the line connecting the upstage ends of the proscenium arch-on the stage floor. Note: When you draw a wysiwyg venue, its origin is aligned with the file’s Document origin. This is the default icon that appears for any document and will remain the same unless you change the Ruler options/properties. This icon indicates that the Ruler’s zero position (origin) is displayed at the file’s Document Origin, which is set by default to be the center point of the wysiwyg venue defined for the event. This applies to the Wireframe tab as well as any of the Quad tab’s three wireframe quadrants. The icon in the upper left corner of the ruler changes depending on the origin and the corresponding position of the Ruler. In the User Options window, click the Draw Defaults tab, and then deselect the checkbox beside On/Off. To turn off the Rulers, click Options > User Options.Tip: When working with a large venue, it is recommended that the Grid Interval be increased in order for measurements to be visible when zoomed out.It updates dynamically as you zoom in and out: when you zoom in on your drawing, the precision of the ruler increases, displaying fractions or decimals when you zoom out, the precision decreases to the point where the ruler disappears.
To learn how to change it, see Changing the Grid Interval. Its interval matches the Grid Interval set in your file.
This visual aid guides you when inserting, drawing, or moving objects in CAD mode, and always shows you where the Origin is (i.e., the 0,0,0 coordinate) even when you create a custom Origin (User Origin) for your file. In Release 23, we added a new tool to wysiwyg’s arsenal, one that greatly improves your efficiency when working in CAD mode: the Ruler Tool.