Xref is a shortened term for “external reference”. The Xref feature in CAD allows us to attach external references to our drawings and the attached Xref files can be used as reference to help us deal with our drawings with higher efficiency.
We can use keyboard to quickly start options or commands in menu, command panel and dialog box. There are three main ways.
Rtext command is used to create remote text (rtext) or reactive text. Users can edit an existing remote text object (Rtext) with RTEDIT command.
Some CAD novices may wonder why the system sometimes asks them to enter a negative value for radius of an arc.
There are three Boolean operation defined in CAD: Union; Subract; Intersect.
Users who are familiar with Plot Settings may know Plot style table, which is used to control the plotted color, lineweight, etc.
There are many objects in CAD that become editable after double-click, such as text, hatch, blocks. But there are times when you just can’t enable editing with double-click. There are some possible causes.
When checking or inspecting drawings, we usually need revision cloud to mark the objects to be modified. Revision cloud is a special polyline that is easy-to-use.
We’ve talked about how to repeat history commands with arrow keys in this previous post
All option zooms to display all visible objects and visual aids.