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OK, now I think I get it. But surely in addition to printing to scale, there is at least one other instance in which it is used: when inserting a library object. In this case, the current scales of both the current drawing and the object must be compared to determine the scale of the object being in...

Changing the main drawing unit in the Drawing Preferences dialogue does not consistently change the coordinate display in the status bar. I started a drawing with the application default set to centimetre and the drawing inherited this. All was well until I decided that I would prefer to work in mil...

Of course, silly me, what a klutz!
Thanks for the reply.

Is it possible to relocate the absolute zero? Perhaps I have misunderstood something but it seems important to be able to do this in certain situations, for example, when creating a library object.