In some design, particularly architectural design, some of the blocks(furniture, television .etc) need to move or rotate the position freely in order to get a better preview. Actually, it’s not difficult so much. Today, GstarCAD brings you a practical feature_ block editor.

You use the Block Editor to define and modify the objects and behavior in a block definition. In the Block Editor, you add parameters and actions, which define custom properties and dynamic behavior.

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Every time you create a new drawing, you will see a default layer: Layer 0. You can’t delete it.

Then when you define their properties such as color, line weight, etc, you will see ByLayer and ByBlock properties. Most of you might already know what ByLayer means. But do you also know what does ByBlock behavior?

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Urgent, urgent, urgent！As a designer you may always heard that in a project team. So accomplish the design as soon as possible is expected, How to? Actually, there are many methods can improve the efficiency. Using keys combination is one of the way. GstarCAD offers keys combination that helps modify basic objects quickly. The 4 SHIFT key combination might interest you.

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Did you notice there is a start up dialog box pops up when you first open GstarCAD software. It will make them aware to select a template before actually start to draw. Startup system variable toggles on/off the Startup dialog box to help users to setup drawing templates settings. Using this dialog box is safer. You can set this startup dialog box to open every time when you start GstarCAD, Just type STARTUP [enter] then type 1 as new value then [enter]. You can also choose not to open new file or dialog box. You can set STARTUP system variable to 0.

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GstarCAD provides plenty of system variables, To check the status of certain system variables, you can use the SETVAR command. After issuing the command, type ? to begin the list, then apply an optional filter. For example entering DIM* will show all the dimension variables.

A frequent problem in objects snaps is the inheritance of the Z value when snapping to a point. GstarCAD addresses this problem with OSNAPZ system variable. If set to 0, osnap uses the z-value of the snapped point. If set to 1, it uses the x+y of the snapped point and the current value of the ELEVATION system variable. Also note that when creating lightweight polylines, the elevation of the first snap will determine the elevation. After that, any snap to other elevations will be ignored.

Sometimes settings (such as FILEDIA) can cause certain routines to ask for a file name at the command prompt. In these cases, you can enter the tilde ~ character followed by enter to bring up the file selection dialog.

You may occasionally find yourself in a situation where the NEW, OPEN, and SAVE commands do not provide a dialog. Simply enter FILEDIA at the command prompt and enter a value of 1. If you attempt to PLOT and fail to get a dialog, simply enter ` at the command prompt and enter a value of 1.

Setting up drawing to plot is like an artist making a reproduction of a painting; the two paintings will look very similar, but they’ll never look exactly the same. This is much like plotting in GstarCAD; you’ll probably find the right combination to correctly plot drawing layout 1, but reproducing those settings for layout 2 and so on… will likely be a shot in the dark. Even if you do manage to perfectly reproduce those settings for subsequent sheets or layouts – how much time did you waste?

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Do you need to create a high-resolution image from lines, arcs and other objects in your drawing? No, this is not about rendering. Just you can just plot your model/layout.

Try to open your plot dialog box. You can see a plotter namedPublishToWebJPG.pc3. Use it, you will get a JPG image with fair quality.

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