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How to set the default scale for measurements?

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Hello, I have created a new calibrated measurement according to this tutorial: https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe6/index.html?calibrate-measurement_ed.html

Is there a way to set this measurement as the default either for one document or for all documents? Currently I have to select it manually every time I measure something.

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Re: How to set the default scale for measurements?  SOLVED

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Hello prostredek,

Yes - you can set a style for annotations (the measurement tool is a type of annotation) as explained here:
How do I set the default style of annotations in PDF-XChange?

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Re: How to set the default scale for measurements?

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Thank you very much, that is great.
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Re: How to set the default scale for measurements?

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"Is there a way to set this measurement as the default either for one document or for all documents?" the OP wrote.
Good point!
Currently, the default is set for all documents. When I have two documents (plans) open at the same time and I have to measure in both of them, I have to change scales each time I change documents. It would be really great, if this were a per-document setting.
(Of course this might be desirable for other annotations, too. Depending on the particular use case. But for the measurement tool I think this is obviously better.)

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Re: How to set the default scale for measurements?

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Hello, jotess

I spoke with the dev team on that possibilty, and I am afraid that the suggestion has been rejected at this time. For the foreseeable future, we do only plan to offer a single application wide "default" setting for measurements and comments.

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