https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/scale-symbols-to-a-reference-scale-set-default/m-p/1372721#M77698 <P>i work with plans that consist a lot of layers.</P><P>each time i upload a layer the box of scale symbols to a reference scale set&nbsp; which is at the display tab at the properties is checked. it is time consuming to remove the checked box so that the symbols will appear normally at the layout as it might take a few seconds up to half a minute for the project to update the change.</P><P>is there a way to make the box default to be unchecked?</P> Sun, 21 Jan 2024 10:40:23 GMT goldie 2024-01-21T10:40:23Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/scale-symbols-to-a-reference-scale-set-default/m-p/1372721#M77698 <P>i work with plans that consist a lot of layers.</P><P>each time i upload a layer the box of scale symbols to a reference scale set&nbsp; which is at the display tab at the properties is checked. it is time consuming to remove the checked box so that the symbols will appear normally at the layout as it might take a few seconds up to half a minute for the project to update the change.</P><P>is there a way to make the box default to be unchecked?</P> Sun, 21 Jan 2024 10:40:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/scale-symbols-to-a-reference-scale-set-default/m-p/1372721#M77698 goldie 2024-01-21T10:40:23Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/scale-symbols-to-a-reference-scale-set-default/m-p/1678721#M101306 <P>There is no way - yet there should be.&nbsp;</P> <P>Common Esri, this can't be hard to do. It is a pain when you have to repeat that step for every single layer in every single project, you're working in. Let us turn that setting off by default.</P> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:26:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/scale-symbols-to-a-reference-scale-set-default/m-p/1678721#M101306 Albrecht_EQ 2026-01-20T14:26:49Z