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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

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

For easier viewing or special effects, you can change several display properties of raster images in a drawing. You can adjust brightness, contrast and fade for the display of an image as well as for the plotted output. To darken or lighten an image,... 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

If you hide an image boundary, the boundary can not be plotted or displayed and cannot be selected with the pointing device, which prevents that the image is accidentally moved or modified. Clipped images are still displayed to their specified... Read More

Menu : Tool> Spelling Command Entry: SPELL  This command will perform a spell-check of words you input automatically and will also give some word list suggestions. Main Dialog Box After starting the command, the Check Spelling dialog box is... 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

You can select an object to HATCH or fill, or specify an internal point to define a boundary. A hatch boundary or enclosed area can be formed with any combination of objects like LINE , ARC , CIRCLE and polylines (PLINE). Only objects that are in... Read More

You can hatch an area using a predefined hatch pattern, define a simple line pattern using the current linetype (LINETYPE), or create more complex hatch patterns. You can also create a gradient fill that can be used to enhance presentation drawings... Read More

Compound objects like polylines (PLINE), dimensions (DIMSTYLE), hatches (HATCH ) or block references (BLOCK) can be converted into individual elements.     Explode Dimensions and Hatches When a dimension or a hatch is exploded (XPLODE), the... Read More