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Working with block references that represent symbols are essential in some industrial application drawings like electrical schematics, piping, etc. But a headache comes when try to place these blocks accurately overlapping or even breaking other... Read More

To produce clip art and other nontechnical images that users need for drawings, they frequently use WMF (Windows metafile format) files. WMF is a file format which is supported by the Microsoft Windows operation plan, WMF is independent of the... Read More

With the ASCISIN command, you can import geometry objects stored in SAT (ASCII) files. Using ACISIN you can convert the model to a body object or to 3D solids and regions if the body is a true solid or a true region.   Read More

When you import 3DS files created with 3D Studio, the 3D Studio geometry and rendering data including meshes, materials, mappings, lights and cameras will be read. Not imported are 3D Studio procedural materials, smoothing groups and keyframe data. ... Read More

Information from other OLE supporting applications can be imported into a drawing. Link OLE Objects in Drawings You can link information from a document created by another application to a drawing. When information in linked documents are changed,... Read More

With the help of a polygonal clipping boundary, you can clip the display of a raster image in a drawing. Clipping an image, makes only parts of the image visible and you can increase redrawing speed using it. The clipping boundary can be a rectangle... Read More

Raster images consist of a rectangular grid of small squares or dots known as pixels. For example, a photograph of a house is made up of a series of pixels colorized to represent the appearance of a house. A raster image references the pixels in a... Read More

When you add TEXT to a drawing, the current text style will be used. The text style determines the font, size, angle, orientation and other text characteristics. Every drawing has a default text style, which is named Standard. The Standard style can... Read More

With this function you can create a line that connects annotation to a feature Create leader You can create a leader with the LEADER or QLEADER command in any place of the drawing and you can set the format and control the appearance at the same... Read More

A wipeout object is a polygonal area that mask underlying objects with the current background color. You can use WIPEOUT  to mask details or make space for notes . The wipeout object can be created by specifying a polygonal area with a series of... Read More