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Alignment Parameter can give dynamic blocks the function of alignment automatically, which can save the step of rotating the blocks. 1. Add a alignment parameter for a roughness symbol Draw a roughness symbol in the Block Editor (BEDIT). Select the... Read More

PDF Underlay Menu : Insert > Reference > PDF Underlay Command Entry : PDFATTACH  If you receive project drawings in the form of a PDF file, you can reuse that PDF data in your own GstarCAD drawing files. For example, imagine that you are a... Read More

To produce clip art and other nontechnical images that users need for drawings, they frequently use WMF (Windows metafile format) files. WMF is a file format which is supported by the Microsoft Windows operation plan, WMF is independent of the... Read More

This function is a specific function of GstarCAD, you can input some particular texts, for example, subscript text, single underline, double underline text and some special symbols and also you can set row spacing, alignment, text height and other... Read More

This function can change the text rotation angle of the block and it only takes effect on text or mtext, attribute text can't be changed. Menu: Express>Blocks>Change Block Text Angle Command Entry: bchgang Operation steps: 1.Start the... Read More

This function can change the height of the block, it only takes effect on text or mtext, attribute text can't be changed. Menu: Express>Blocks>Change Block Text High Command Entry: bchghei Operation steps: 1.Start the command. 2.Input a... Read More

This function can search frames automatically, calculate according to the size of the frame and then arrange several drawings to a big drawing. Menu: Express tools>Plot Tool>Arrange Frame Automatically Command Entry : ZDPT Operation steps: ... Read More

Take the step shaft as an example, if we stretch the left part of the step shaft and the keyway still is at the center point of the smaller diameter shaft after stretching, as the following picture shows: Then, we use the "Distance Multiplier"... Read More

Removes mask from text that has been masked with the TEXTMASK command Menu: Express>Text>Unmask Text Command Entry: TEXTUNMASK Command line prompts as follow: Select text or MText object from which mask is to be removed. Select object: Use an... Read More

Select entities by entity type and color. Menu : Express>Selection Tools>Get Selection by Object/Color Command Entry : GETENTCOLSEL Operation steps : 1.Start the command. 2.Select one object and system will take the object's color as... Read More