How can I display a scale on the screen (like a map).

I'm modeling some organic shapes  with splines and it would be very convenient while I'm sketching and reviewing the design if somewhere in the corner of my monitor I had a "scale" so I had a rough sense of how different two curves were, how much a curved surface deviates from some planar layout geometry, etc. Does Solidworks have anything like this built in? If not, are there any tricks to approximate this behavior? Thanks!

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