Preferences and settings

To access preferences:

Setting the language

To select a language, click on the language dropdown in the General preferences dialog.

Current options are:

If you see something amiss, and wanted to contribute to languages in Vecta, please visit Vecta's Github Language page.

To set the keyboard increment:

Click on the keyboard increment dropdown in the General preferences dialog

You can choose Auto or Custom.

If you choose Custom, you can input the value using mm, cm, m, in or px on the set increment box.

Choose this option if you want Vecta to resize symbols from stencils to automatically resize to your current grid.

This is very useful to ensure all symbols are precisely placed on your drawing.

Choose this option to play a sound on your computer when you receive a chat message on Vecta's build in chat box.

Choose this option to play a sound on your computer when a collaborator joins you in editing.

To access notification preferences:

Choose this option to enable or disable desktop notifications.

You can also choose to be notified when a drawing is created, renamed or trashed.

To access DWG/DXF preferences:

You can tick or untick box to import dimensions and layers. Ticking the box will keep the dimensions and layers of the files.

You can also input a custom stroke width which means the width of the symbols outline. 0.2 px is set as default.