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Preferences Dialog

2 Open/Save As Directory - Control • Use This Directory refers the program to
how the program behaves when a new a particular location specified by you.
plan is opened or an existing plan is saved. • Click the Browse button to define a par-
• Use Last Directory refers the program to ticular directory when Use This Direc-
the directory last used to save or open a tory is selected.
plan file.

Unit Conversions Panel
In many places throughout Chief Architect, a Chief Architect plan file, it is always at its
you can specify the size of an object with any true, unscaled size and the drawing is only
Length unit listed on the UNIT CONVERSIONS scaled when you print it. This means that if
panel. Using the data on this panel, the you import a scaled drawing, you must
program will convert your entry into the unit compensate for its scaling by creating a
set in the Dialog Number/Angle Style custom unit of measurement. See “Import
dialog. See “Dialog Number/Angle Style Drawing Assistant” on page 1178.
Dialog” on page 137.
The default unit conversions are locked and
These conversions are also useful when you cannot be changed, but custom conversions
import drawings. When an object is drawn in can be added to the list and later modified.

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