4 SHIFT key combination you might not know It is great to know that GstarCAD offers keys combination that helps modify basic objects...

How do I move, rotate, and scale an object at once ? ALIGN command is often overlooked by many CAD users. Instead of using move, rotate,...

How do I change Mtext to lower case or upper case ? You might make a mistake and want to change the text case… either to lower case or...

A sample of GstarCAD's geometry calculator People often don't know about GstarCAD's built in geometry calculator. While it lacks in...

How to create 2D isometric drawing ? If you work in plant industry, then you might need to draw isometric drawings. If you use GstarCAD,...

How can I create a circular wipeout ? Many CAD users want to create a circular wipeout, as you may or may not know, you cannot create a...

How can I draw a tangent line off an arc within a polyline ? You may have noticed that when you go to the ARC mode within the PLINE...

How to make a multicolored line entity or with embedded text in GstarCAD ? Although it may sound impossible, you can draw multicolored...

How to enable object snap to hatch? There are several users asking, why they can’t snap to hatch object, the answer is simple, because...

How to draw an arc with a specific arc length ? There are some methods that seem to allow you define length. For example start, center,...

How to reference objects to file/URL in GstarCAD ? In GstarCAD is possible to link an object to another file. So if you needed to see the...

Knowing more about actions in dynamic block editor Actions define how the geometry of a dynamic block reference will move or change when...

Knowing more about parameters in dynamic block editor Parameters have an appearance similar to dimensions. Parameters also specify...

Knowing more about dynamic block editor You use the Block Editor to define and modify the objects and behavior in a block definition. In...

Dynamic Block Creation (Chain Action) If you want to realize symmetric stretch keeping keyway center no change and the length of smaller...

Dynamic Block Creation (Distance Multiplier) Take step shaft as an example, if we stretch the left part of the step shaft and the keyway...

Dynamic Block Creation (Symmetrical Stretch) Add two stretch actions for parameter, and select the two grips of the two parameters as the...

Dynamic Block Creation (Parameter Value Set) For mechanical design, we often need stretch the keyway to a certain length. Now, let us see...

Dynamic Block Creation (Linear Stretch) For example, during mechanical design, we often need change the position as well as the dimension...

Dynamic Block Creation (Flip) When you use the "roughness symbol block" to label the spare parts, the symbol is sometimes already in the...