How to understand Verify and Preset when defining an attribute?
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.
How to calculate the area of an object?
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.
Get to know the Group command in GstarCAD
The Group is not a commonly used command in CAD. The Group command is used to create and manage the saved object group, and it can be seen as a named selection set and after grouping objects, users can select all the group objects.
The DRAGMODE Command of GstarCAD
The DRAGMODE Command is used to control the way dragged objects are displayed.
What’s the use of Grids in CAD?
When opening CAD system, the system creates a new empty drawing, we can see in the drawing there are points(in lower version of CAD) or lines(in higher version of CAD) that are equidistant from each other, which is called grids. So what’s the use of grids in CAD.
How to select objects or blocks with shared properties using Select Similar Command?
Sometimes, we need to select all objects or blocks with shared properties in order to delete them or count the number of a certain type of block. GstarCAD provides many ways to select objects in a drawing, among them is the very useful Select Similar Command.
Why I can’t rotate the inserted OLE image?
Inserting image like this has a problem: when we copy the drawing to others, we will have to attach the image file, otherwise, the image won’t show in the drawing that we send to others. That’s why most of the time CAD users prefer to insert an OLE image since the OLE image is saved in the drawing and there is no need to attach the image again.
How to move an object using a displacement
How to move an object using a displacement
What is Layer Isolate (LAYISO) command? How to use it?
If your drawing is complex with all those layers, then count on LAYISO command to help focus on specific work that needs to be done.
Basics about CAD layers tutorial 2
There are a few concepts about layer that need to be clarified: layer 0, Layer Defpoints, Layer Filter, Layer States Manager,















