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In the current drawing, you can use one block to replace another one, moreover, you can purge the unreferenced block when the operation is finished. Menu : Express tools>Blocks>Replace Block Command Entry : BLOCKREPLACE  Select a block to... Read More

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

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

PDF Underlay Menu : Insert > Reference > PDF Underlay Command Entry : PDFATTACH  If you receive project drawings in the form of a PDF file, you can reuse that PDF data in your own GstarCAD drawing files. For example, imagine that you are a... 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

If you attach a drawing as a XREF , the referenced drawing is linked to the current drawing. Any changes to the xref drawing are displayed in the current drawing when it is opened or reloaded. You can also insert an entire drawing as block in... 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