nanoCAD Platform Help

Underlays

nanoCAD supports DWF, DWFX, PDF files insertion as underlays.

You caan use common editing commands: Copy, Move, Rotate, Mirror, Scales and others for underlays.

It is possible to change the position, scale and rotation angle of the underlay using the grips: the upper grip is responsible for scaling, the lower right grip is responsible for rotation (relative to the lower left), the left grips (lower and upper) are responsible for movement.

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Properties dialog box displays some underlay settings: Contrast, Fade, Adjust colors for background, monochrome:

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Underlay in the drawing has one grid in the bottom left corner. Use it to move the underlay.

Underlay has a frame that shows max underlay size. Use PDFFRAME system variable to show (1) or hide (0) a frame.

It is possible to set the display border to show only the cropped part of the background. Trimming is performed with the UNDERLAYCLIP command.