The Quick Select is a very useful tool, but can we use it to select two types of objects when it only supports the selection of one object type? The answer is to use it twice.
Continue reading “How to select two objects of different types with Quick Select and Filter”The Verify and Preset parameters are not easy to understand, because we can barely see the difference before and after we make change to them.
Continue reading “How to understand Verify and Preset when defining an attribute?”CAD provides many ways to calculate the area of an object, do you know some other ways? Please feel free to share your experience by sending an email or leaving a comment below.
Continue reading “How to calculate the area of an object?”The image file can be inserted into CAD drawings and we can set rotation angle for the image, as shown in the following picture,
Continue reading “Why I can’t rotate the inserted OLE image?”The other day, one of our users asked a question: There’s something wrong with my CAD software, I can’t edit the text by double-clicking, and I have to click twice to edit the graphics. I didn’t know what he meant by saying having to click twice to edit. But after he showed the problem to me, I figured out the reason and helped him solve the problem, he had checked the Noun/verb selection option in the Selection set interface of the Options dialog box, which controls whether you select before or after you issue a command, such as Move, Copy commands, the software indicates to select objects again.
Continue reading “Why I’m unable to edit by double-clicking the text? Why I have to choose again after already choosing graphic editing?”The Object Snap in CAD can help us draw or locate other graphics based on some characteristic points such as endpoint, midpoint, center of circle and intersection point. Object Snap is the most frequently used drawing tools in CAD and this post will talk about the FAQ and basic tips for Object Snap.
Continue reading “Tips for Object Snap in CAD”When drawing in CAD, we often see the coordinates around cross cursor showing, that’s dynamic input, ash shown in the following picture.
Continue reading “What’s the difference between dynamic input and command line input of coordinates in CAD?”In CAD, Object Snap Tracking has more options than displayed in the Setting dialog and there are many ways to set these options, let’s explore more.
Continue reading “How to set the Object Snap Tracking? How many options are in the Object Snap Tracking?”Line weight is a very basic concept in CAD, we can set it through layers or by selecting the object. The main function is to control the line weight effect of the graphics when plotting.
Continue reading “What’s the line weight used for? Can we skip line weight when drawing?”