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  Command name: AUTOLAYER AUTOLAYER command allows you to customize and predefine the associated layer of a command to streamline drafting workflow. You can create as many layers as you want. Each layer created must be a predefined command,... Read More

If you have many texts, mtexts or block attributes in your drawing. And you want see them rotated to different angles. They can be very hard to read! To fix text orientation you can use: Rotate text (TORIENT) tool.     Read More

You might make a mistake and want to change the text case… either to lower or upper case. Do you need to re-type it? No way! It is easy to do. Select the word you want to change for. Right click in the word, select the CHANGE CASE option> Lower... 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

Block attributes is a nice tool to work with. We can use it to preserve text style and size as annotation block. The problem is when we need to explode it somehow, we will lose any information we put in the attribute. To preserve the values, do not... Read More

Text, also called single-line text, or Dtext, makes every line a separate object. It’s great for short annotation in a drawing. On the other hand, Mtext, also called multiline text, has more formatting options, and is better for larger amounts... Read More

Select and Right-Click a cell. On Table window select the icon Insert Block. Then select a block from the list of blocks, or click Browse to find a block in another drawing. You can specify the scale, rotation angle, cell alignment or auto fit the... Read More

After selecting all the cells by window selection method, you can apply certain properties to those selected cells through Table window. This window offers a range of options for cell edition like adding rows, columns, blocks, field data, merge and... Read More