Grid size in Draw?

[Bigs]

Hi, I’m trying to create a scale plan of my garden, so I can design it, sort of. Using Draw, how to I tell it a rectangle is an 8ft by 8.5ft shed?

It’s only showing in centimeters, and even if I pretend cm are ft it’s way too big.

I could mess around with a calculator but it would be a lot easier if I could just tell the thing that the canvas is 44ft by 50ft and this rectangle is 8ft. There must be some way of doing that, right?

Right?

[EarnestAl]

You need to set your units and scale first, they will remain as set until changed subsequently.

• Open Draw and click Tools > Options > LibreOffice Draw > General (Mac is LibreOffice > Preferences rather than Tools > Options)
• Under Measurement Units set Feet
• Under Scale you could set 1:20 (no 1:12 scale I am afraid) and you will easily get your shed on a Letter sized piece of paper. At 1:10 it would be a tight squeeze. Cheers, Al

There is an argument for consistency of scale if this is more than a one-off. The link given by Hrbrgr in Libre Draw - Custom Shapes and Custom Toolbar for the Custom Shapes is worth reading.

Another post that might help if you want to use inches is Adjust ruler/grid for working with feet/inches