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  Command name: SECTIONPLANE With the SECTIONPLANE command, you can create a section object that acts as a cutting plane through solids, surfaces, or regions. If you turn on live sectioning, moving the section object throughout the 3D model in... Read More

  Command name: SETBYLAYER  Changes the property overrides of the selected objects to ByLayer. You can specify which properties are changed to ByLayer, including color, linetype, lineweight, and materials.   Read More

ALIGN command is often overlooked by many CAD users. Instead of using move, rotate, and scale commands separately, you can do it at once using this tool. With ALIGN you can move, rotate and scale an object while aligning it with existing geometry or... Read More

There are several users asking, why they can’t snap to hatch object, the answer is simple, because they did not enable a drafting option to snap to hatch object. To enable it, simply issue OPTION command. In option dialog box, drafting tab, in... Read More

In GstarCAD is possible to link an object to another file. So if you needed to see the components specifications or 3D model of a certain component from a drawing, you can add hyperlinks to an object. The hyperlinks can be pointed directly to a... Read More

GstarCAD has the ability to add descriptions to the block definitions in the drawing. Issue the BLOCK command, select the block from the list at top, then click in the lower 'Description' section and enter the description and finally click... Read More

You can set to save drawing files to older or newest file format version, by default. You can access it in option dialog box, on open and save tab, under File Save option. Also, in the Save drawing as dialog box, select options and change the default... Read More

The ATTACH command is used to insert external reference, raster image or underlay (DWF, DWFx, PDF or DGN file) to current drawing. Command ATTACH Ribbon: Insert > Reference > Attach Function Description: In the "Select Reference File"... Read More

The AREA command is used to calculate the area and circumference of specified object or defined region. Command AREA Ribbon: Utilities > Measure > AreaMenu: Tools > Inquiry > Area Command Prompts Specify first corner point or ... Read More

The APPLOAD command is used to load and unload application programs, as well define which applications loaded at startup. Command APPLOAD Ribbon: Manage > Applications > Load ApplicationMenu: Tools > Load Application...  Function... Read More