Preferences enable you to set distances, altitudes, and coordinates
in the units of your choice. The preferences are displayed in a
pane in the Map Builder under the Preferences
tab. You can change preference settings at anytime and the changes
take place immediately. The preference settings can affect, for
example, the units of the altitude charts used in terrain analysis,
the orthodromy measures drawn on the map, the scale bar, and mouse
locator units.
You can select the units from a list in the
preferences tab, as shown in the following figure.
Preferences pane
The Date Line Wrapping option can be used
to cut polygons that circumnavigate the world. Note that this
option is only applied when the next reprojection occurs, for
example, when you change the center of the projection.
For more information, see Setting
preferences.