Selection Management

Selection Management

GstarCAD 2025 → User Guide → Express Tools → AutoXlsTable

Purpose:

Use the "Selection Manager" function to calculate the area of a circle and a rectangle, when length and area change, the calculating data will update automatically.

Operation steps:

  1. Draw a circle and a rectangle as below, use the "Create Table" function to create a table as below.
  1. Start the "Selection Management" command and a dialog box will pop up as below.
  1. Input "CIRCLE" and click the "New Group" button, as shown below.
  1. Select the circle.
  1. Press enter, the "Selection Manager" dialog box will add a new item "CIRCLE", as shown below.
  1. You can add a "RECTANGLE" item using the same operation as above.

  1. Click "Close" to exit the "Selection Manager" dialog box.

  2. Use the "Edit Table" command to edit the table.

  3. Click the cell on the right side of "CIRCLE" and click the "AutoXlsTable: Insert Function" icon, as shown below.

  1. In the dialog box, you can specify the entity as "CIRCLE", Layer as "All" and click "OK" .
  1. Use the same operation to insert the rectangle area calculating function, as shown below.
  1. Click the pull-down menu "Range Import" option of AutoXlsTable.
  1. Back to GstarCAD and the table will calculate the area of the circle and rectangle, as shown below.
  1. Scale the rectangle and the table data will change automatically, as shown below.

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