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Emil Rindell
Jonas Bryntesson
Henrik Andersson
January 20, 2026
Emil Rindell
Jonas Bryntesson
Henrik Andersson
January 20, 2026
Question: How do you turn off the display of arrows on the coordinate measurement in the 2D drawing?
Answer: On individual measurement chains, right-click on the 0 measurement and turn off "Show Origin and Arrows."
2D drawing template
You can, of course, change this directly in your ICD template so that you don't have to adjust it every time you place new measurements.
Start by locating and opening the ICD template you want to change. If there is more than one template, you can open them all at once.
The templates are saved by default in a special location that is easy to find. Copy and paste this path into your Explorer window:
%appdata%\IronCAD\IRONCAD\27.0\en-us\Template\
NOTE! Replace \27.0\ with the corresponding version where
The folder \27.0 corresponds to version 2025.
The folder \28.0 corresponds to version 2026. Etc...
It displays folders with various templates from the standard installation. For example, the ISO folder contains the standard templates that are included directly with the installation.
Once you have found and opened the correct ICD template, go to the settings for styles and layers and find the setting shown in the image below.
Then save and close the file before creating a new 2D drawing based on the updated drawing template.
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