Creating 2D objects

 

A 2D drawing can contain individual entities and complex objects.

Simple objects (entities) are some of the following entities: points, lines, directions (Construction Line), circles, ellipses and arcs.

Beside these entities, simple objects are also images and text.

Statistics show that these entities are more than 50% presented within the complex objects.

 

Complex entities are the following objects: rectangles, polygons (N-gons), polylines, splines (smooth curves), etc.

Objects can be grouped in blocks and some other types of objects like hatches.

Basically, most commands for drawing objects are placed in the Draw toolbar shown on the left.

 

Every object type has it's properties, which can be seen in the left part of the screen after you select (mark) an object.

For example, properties of a text object look like on the picture below:

General properties for majority of objects are:

• Color – Color can be chosen from the color map, it can be same as Layer's color (BYLAYER) or it can be same as block's color (BYBLOCK).
• Layer  – determines the layer where object will be placed. Layers can be shown or hidden as needed.
• LineType – line type can be Continuos or of some discontinuous type
• LineWidth – default value is 1, but the line width can be decreased or increased

 

Window Properties can be moved on the screen or docked, but it can also be hidden by clicking the little 'x'. 

Window Properties will be shown again by double clicking the selected object.

 

New object can be created by entering a command in the command line. Commands are ARC, CIRCLE, POLYLINE or some other class, as can be seen within this User's Guide under creation of an object.

An example of entering text framed by rectangle in the command line is the following:

We can see in the example that text height and text rotation obtained „Default value“, which is within the brackets < >, so the default values are <1.0> and <0.0>.