Where the settings are

Open Settings from the cog in the top bar, or press Ctrl+F and type “settings”. It has a search box: type a word such as snap, units or header and it finds the option whichever section it’s in.

Settings is the hub. Anything you can change in a menu, a panel or a dialog is also in Settings, so you can always find it in one place.

Each section opens with what it is for and whether it stays on this device or is saved with the drawing. Inside, settings are grouped in cards under plain names. A long explanation shows two lines and a quiet More; changes apply as you make them.

• General: the size of the interface and its icons, how the tools behave while you draw, how long messages stay, the browser tab and the question before it’s closed, spelling, and your name.
• This project: what belongs to the drawing and travels in its project file: styles, places, layers, your own columns and groups.
• Appearance: theme, the colour round the sheets, page numbers, how a drawing opens and scrolls, where the panels sit, and how sheets are drawn.
• Documents: exporting a PDF, what a take-off leaves as, units, precision and number format, and drawing codes.
• Tools: snapping and how far it reaches, the angles Shift keeps to, your ways of measuring, signatures and stamps, counting and filling, hints and the magnifier, what the mouse wheel does, and a crosshair across the drawing.
• Collaborate: how you appear in a Dato Room, what you share, chat alerts, what sits on top, and earlier rooms.
• Keyboard & Shortcuts: every key, and a map of the keyboard to change them.
• Touch: switching touch mode on for a tablet, a resting hand beside a pen, and undo with a two-finger tap.
• Pen: what the pen's side button and eraser end do, what kind of pen it’s taken for, and a pad to try it on.
• Accessibility: less motion, higher contrast, a bolder focus outline, key tips, and text and icon size. Each starts as Follow my system, so a computer already set for less motion or more contrast is respected without being asked twice.
• Advanced: saving your settings to a file and loading them in another browser or on another computer, the relay a Dato Room uses, memory, diagnostics, and where Help opens.

Moving your settings to another browser or computer

Settings are kept in one browser on one computer. To use the same choices somewhere else, open Advanced, press Save settings to a file, and in the other browser press Load settings from a file. It tells you how many it took and how many it didn’t recognise, and Undo puts back what it replaced. The file holds your choices only: never a drawing, and nothing about this particular computer. A file that isn’t a settings file changes nothing.

Settings are kept on this computer, under this web address and in this browser.

In DatoMark Open Settings