Bug 105018 - A (technical) scale for engineering drawing would be helpful
Summary: A (technical) scale for engineering drawing would be helpful
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
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5.2.2.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Draw-UX
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Reported: 2016-12-31 12:17 UTC by santon
Modified: 2016-12-31 14:19 UTC (History)
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Description santon 2016-12-31 12:17:15 UTC 
Engineering drawing is very often in scale, e.g. 1:100 (1cm in drawing means 1m in nature).
It would be helpful, if Draw page setup will allow a basic scale setting. This affects all rulers, positioning and size, dimension line and data.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2016-12-31 14:19:07 UTC 
Draw module already provides this.

Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Draw -> General: Scale "Drawing Scale" drop list.

And that will apply to each page of the document globally.

But, if the intent is for multiple scales within a document, and retaining scale settings with the document those are open as issues affecting Draw for technical drawing:

bug 59068 -- Allow different Drawing Scale for each slide of document

bug 83325 -- Make document settings available in File > Properties

bug 98453 -- Drawing's save unit should be used when opening it