If users do not want to show dimensions value for a particular reason, they can make the dimension contents permanently blank by following the steps below:

1. Create a new dimension style in the dimension style dialog box.

2. Go directly to primary units tab, on prefix blank space, type in:  \H

3. If you are using a precision unit like: 0,0, you must type \H on suffix as well.

4. Click OK button and set current your new dimension style. Done, just try it!

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Have you tried to annotate your isometric drawings? How about dimensions and text, is it appear properly? No, it’s not. The drawing looks isometric, but not the annotations. So how can you create isometric annotations?

Isometric Text

First, create two text styles within the Text Style dialog box. Use oblique angle 30 deg for one style and -30 deg for the other.

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Just using a simple tool. In the drawing below, if you notice blue cloud area, you can see that the columns or pillars do not fit in width with the long narrow balcony. By the way the columns are block objects.

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It is great to know that GstarCAD offers a key combination that helps modify basic objects quickly. Many people don’t realize that using shift combinations can increase their productivity. Here is a little list that might interest you:

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People often don’t know about GstarCAD’s built in geometry calculator. While it lacks in interface appeal it more than makes up for it in capability. Take the ability to snap to a point between to endpoints. Consider this example where a circle is placed halfway between the endpoints of two lines.

Command: CIRCLE
Specify center point for circle or [3P/2P/Ttr (tan tan radius)]: ‘CAL
>> Expression: MEE
>> Select one endpoint for MEE:
>> Select another endpoint for MEE:

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Many CAD users want to create a circular wipeout, as you may or may not know, you cannot create a wipeout using a circle, only a closed pline without any arcs. Instead, use the POLYGON command.

1. Enter the command POLYGON,

2. When prompted to enter the number of sides, enter a value of 36 which will create a closed pline that looks just like a circle. You can assign the value of 36 sides for the pline because it looks just like a circle without having too many vertices that make the closed pline too “busy”

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You may have noticed that when you go to the ARC mode within the PLINE command, the first and consecutive arcs are tangent to the previous segment. To create a tangent line off the last segment, first press L for Line mode, then press a second L for Length.  Pick or enter a distance and the segment drawn will be tangent off the last arc. It’s the 2nd L that does the trick.

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As you know, dynamic input provides a command interface near the cursor to help you keep your focus in the drafting area. When the dynamic input is on, tooltips display information near the cursor that is dynamically updated as the cursor moves. When a command is active, the tooltips provide a place for user entry and there are command options which are more intuitive and convenient to select. Here there are 3 reasons to like dynamic input:

1. Get command faster: 

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If you have many texts, mtexts or block attributes in your drawing. And you want see them rotated to different angles. They can be very hard to read! To fix text orientation you can use: Rotate text tool.

Accessing Rotate text tool (TORIENT)

You can access this tool on Express Tool tab> Text Tools> Rotate Text. If you love command line, simple type TORIENT then press [enter].

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If you need to select all horizontal or vertical lines within a drawing, this could be a tedious work. It is not easy to select them in quite a complex drawing. But you can do it easily if you use QSELECT tool.

So how to use it to select all vertical lines? Simple. It means they have the same X value, and horizontal lines have the same Y value. When you activate quick properties window, change object type to line, properties to Delta X (or Delta Y), change the value to 0. Click OK, you are done!

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