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nanoCAD User Interface
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- Command Line
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- Restore UI State
- Managing Interface Elements
- Application Look
Working With Documents
- Opening a document
  - Opening a Document
  - Float Document Window
- Creation of New Document
- Saving a Document
- Export
  - Export
  - Integration with CAE Fidesys
- Import
- CAD Standards
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- Working with Documents
- Drawing Properties
- Closing a Document
- Create Transmittal Package
- File Explorer
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Tuning nanoCAD
- Transferring user interface settings
- Tuning program parameters
- Graphic subsystem settings
- Customize User Interface
- Design settings
- Migration of Settings from Previous Versions
- Drawing Units
- Scale List
- Symbol Scale and Measurement Scale
- System Variable Monitor
Coordinate Systems
- User Coordinate System
- Coordinate Systems
Precision tools
- Precision modes
- Precision Tools
- 2D Constraints
Graphic Display Management
- 3D Navigation
- Order of objects
- Control the Display of Objects (Isolation)
- Viewports of Model Space
  - Viewports of Model Space
  - Managing Viewports from the Command Line
- Visual Styles Editor
- Display Modes
- Setting of the Orthographic and Isometric Views
- Managing the Display of Annottaive Objects
- Visual Styles
- Managing display of line weight on the screen
- Managing Named Views
- Isodraft
- Drawing Regeneration
Objects’ Properties
- Line Types
  - Line Types
  - Linetype Editor
- “Properties” bar
- Layers
- Distributing Objects by Layers
- Objects’ Properties
- Drawing Explorer
- Select Color Dialog Box
- Managing the Transparency of Objects
Geometric objects
- Construction and reference geometry
- Linear Objects
- Curved Objects
- Geometric Objects
Editing Objects
- Selection of objects
- Ways to edit objects
- Commands to edit geometric objects
- Commands to edit objects
  - Path Array
  - Associative Arrays
  - Explode Geometry
  - Rectangular Array
  - Polar Array
  - Edit Array
  - Array
  - Commands to Edit and Replicate Objects
  - Copy
  - Mirror
  - Offset
  - 2D Arrays
  - 3D Array
  - Delete Duplicates
  - Move
  - Rotate
  - Scale
  - Stretch
  - Align
  - Distributing Copies
  - Divide
  - Measure
  - Chamfer
  - Fillet
  - Explode
  - Explode All nanoCAD Objects
- Editing Objects
Creating and editing complex objects
- Blocks
  - Block Attributes
  - Reset Block
  - 3D Block Editor
  - Blocks
  - Creating a Block
  - Block Insertion
  - Editing Block Definition (Block Redefinition)
  - Block Editor
  - Exploding a Block Reference
  - Managing Blocks in the Current Drawing
  - Saving a Block in a Separate File
- Proxy Objects
  - Proxy Objects
  - Removing Proxy Objects
  - Exploding Proxy Objects
- External references control
  - External References Manager
  - Bind External References
  - Bind Named Objects of External References
  - External References Notification
  - Renaming Named Objects
- Underlays
  - Underlays
  - Insert Underlay
- Show boundary
  - Setting Clip
  - Setting of the Show Boundary for a Raster Image
  - Show Boundary
  - Setting of the Show Boundary for the Block or External Reference
  - Boundary
  - Setting Viewport Border for Underlay
- External References Control (Classic Version)
- Binding and Embedding OLE-Objects
- Open OLE-Object
- Update All OLE-Links
- Using Drawing Explorer to Work with Groups
- Clip Map Underlay
- Unload Map Underlay
- Load map underlay
- Insert Map Underlay
- Insert OLE-Object
- Updating Links of OLE-Objects
- Groups of Objects
- Object Grouping Dialog
- Insert External Reference
- Edit References
- Hyperlinks
Working with raster images
- Create new image and rasterize objects
- Displaying quality of raster images
- Correcting raster image geometry
- Color correction
- Filtering color raster images
- Color reducing
- Monochrome filtering
- Raster drawing
- Digitizing raster data (vectorization)
- Working with Raster Images
- Insert Raster Image
- Separate Raster Image
- Embed Raster Image
- Image Settings
- Selecting Data in Raster Images
- Separation by Type and Size
- Rasterization
Execution of Drawings commands
- The Filling and Hatch Commands
  - Overriding Layer for New Hatches and Fills (HPLAYER)
  - Hatch Dialog Box
  - The Filling and Hatch Commands
  - Gradient Fill
  - Fast Hatch
  - Fast Gradient
  - Modify Hatched Areas
- Work with Text
  - Arc Text
  - Work with Text
  - Text
  - Multiline Text
  - Background Mask for Multiline Text
  - Editing Text
  - Justification of the Text Objects
  - Editing the Content of the Text Objects
  - Creating a Text Style
  - Spellchecker
  - Find and Replace Text
  - Convert Text to Multiline Text
  - Justify Text
  - Text Fit
  - Explode Text
  - Change Text Case
  - Quick Text Mode
  - Field
  - Update Field
  - Edit Field
  - Convert Field to Text
- Dimensioning
  - Dimensioning
  - Dimensioning with a Single Command
  - Ordinate Dimensioning
  - Group Dimensioning
  - Base Dimensioning
  - Chain Dimensioning
  - Radial Dimensioning
  - Big Radius Dimensioning
  - Horizontal, Vertical and Aligned Dimensioning
  - Diameter Dimensioning
  - Angular Dimensions
  - Arc length dimensioning
- Dimensions editing
  - Dimensions Editing
  - Oblique Dimension
  - Break and Restore Dimensions
- Dimension styles
  - Modify a Dimension Style
  - Dimension styles
- Multileader
  - Multileader
  - Removing Leader Lines from the Multileader
  - Adding Leader Lines to the Multileader
  - Aligning Multileaders
  - Collecting Multileaders
  - Multileader Style Manager
- Notes
  - Mechanical Note
  - Construction Note
  - Comb Leader Note
  - Section Note
  - Note for Multilayered Constructions
  - Node Note
  - Linear Aligned Note
  - Chain Note
  - Editing the Leaders
  - Advanced Grips for Design Elements
- Tables
  - Tables
  - Editing Tables on the Drawing
  - Interface of the Table Editor Dialog
  - Cell Properties dialog
  - Editing the Size of Rows and Columns
  - Work with MS Excel
  - Page Division
  - Convert Tables
  - Expression Builder
  - Report Creation
  - Grouping and Merging Cells
- .dwg Tables
  - Insert .dwg Table
  - Table Styles .dwg
- Getting Inquiry
  - Distance
  - Point Coordinates
  - Cumulative Length
  - Cumulative Area
  - List
  - Inquiry
  - Mass Properties
  - Set Variable
- Features of the design elements
  - The Edit Command
  - The DDEdit Command
  - The FEdit Command
  - The In Place Edit Command
  - Parameters Redefinition
  - Regenerate
- Shape
- Topographic Hatches
- Boundary
- Region
- Solid
- Wipeout
- Revision Cloud
- Calculator
- Notepad
3D Modeling and Visualisation
- Surfaces
  - Box
  - Wedge
  - Cone
  - Sphere
  - Torus
  - Pyramid
  - Dish
  - Dome
  - Mesh
  - 3D Mesh
  - 3D Face
- Light Sources
- Materials
- Surfaces
- 3D Module
Tool Palettes
- Tool Palettes
Point Clouds
- Point Clouds Display Settings
- Information
- Point Clouds
- Import of Point Clouds
- Export of Point Clouds
- Extract from View
- Create a new Cloud Based on Clipping
- Exporting Cloud Data to a Database
- Transformation to Default Coordinates
- Point Clouds Data Formats
- Configuring Connections to Database
- Recalculation of point cloud coordinates
- Import Cloud Data from DBMS
- Recalculation of point cloud coordicates
- Work with DBMS-Based Point Cloud Storage
Topoplan module
- Creating surfaces
  - Create TIN by Points
  - Exploding a Cloud into Points
  - Import Elevation Grid
  - Converting Model to 3D Faces
  - Converting Model to SubMesh
  - Converting Model to Polyface Mesh
- Tools to work with surfaces
  - Flip Edge
  - Delete Edge
  - Add Vertex
  - Delete Vertex
  - Change Elevation
  - Moving a Vertex
  - Add Structure Line
  - Mesh Boundary
  - Cut Mesh
  - Classification Mesh
- Tools to work with relief elements
  - Offset of a 3D-Polyline
  - Create Contour Lines
  - Delete Contour Lines
  - Creating Bergstriches
  - Contour Lines Labels
  - Building a Profile Line
  - Projecting a Line onto a Mesh
  - Correction of Zero Elevation
- Texturing and Calculation
  - Flat Texture Overlay
  - Raster Texture Mapping
  - Mesh Coloring by Height
  - Calculating Volumes between Models
  - Calculting Surface Area
  - Calculating Surface Volume
- Import and export
  - Import of KML/KMZ files
  - Import Geopoints
  - Import from LandXML
  - Export to LandXML
  - Import from GIS
  - Export to GIS
- Importing Geo-linked Rasters
- Add Measurement File
- Mesh Seal Holes
- Creating Marker Styles of Geopoints
- Hide Frames
- 2D Slope
- Create Geopoints Group Manually
- Create Layouts by Frames
- Save to Measurement Archive
- Edit Marker Style of Geopoints
- Converting to Meshes or 3D Faces
- 3D Slope
- Geopoint Object
- Delete frames
- Save as Geounderlay
- Create Geopoints Manually
- Adding Edge
- Conventional Signs
- Editing Properties of Geopoint Groups
- Recalculation of Coordinates by EPSG Codes
- Search for Key Lines on the Surface
- Create View Frames
- Creating Geopoint Groups by Original Description
- Edit Label Styles of Geopoints
- Measurement Archive
- Export Geopoints
- Creating Customized Library of Conventional Signs
- Attach GeoUnderlay
- Import measurements
- Mesh Simplification
- New Topoplan
- Topoplan Module
- Creating Label Styles of Geo points
The Component Layout and Plot Drawing
- Work with Layouts
- Viewports
- Document Plot
- Model space and paper space
EDS
- EDS
Sheet Set
- Sheet Set Manager Functional Bar
- Sheet Set Properties
  - Sheet Set Properties
  - Sheet Set Custom Properties
- Blocks in the Sheet Sets
- Sheet Set
- Create Sheet Set
- Open Sheet Set
- Actions on sheet set and its elements
Command Scripts and Extensions
- Software Extensions
- Creating Commands from Downloadable Applications and Command Scripts
- Command Scripts
- Script Editor (JS, VBS, LSP, DCL, SCR)
- Run nanoCAD from Command Line with Program Module
Mechanica Module
- INTRO
- Basic knowledge
- SETTINGS
- WORKING WITH STANDARD ELEMENTS
- DESIGNING
- ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
- DRAWING SPECIFICATIONS
- DRAWING DESIGN
- EDITING
- MECHWIZARD
- DEVELOPER'S GUIDE DATABASE
- UTILITIES
Construction Module
- MechWizard
- INTRO
- BASIC KNOWLEDGE
- SETTINGS
- DRAWING DESIGN
- EDITING
- UTILITIES
Messages
- Save changes?
- Saving in demo mode
- Switch it to 3D render mode
Version 24
- Area
- VP Freeze Layer in All Viewports Except Current
- Manage Block Marker Attributes
- Add a Group of Points
- Formation of a Legend
- Modify a Description Key
- Surface Difference
- Create Geopoints by Interpolation
- Creating Hatch
- Create Geopoints by Points and Texts
- Managing Point Cloud Revisions in the Database
- Displaying a Point Cloud
- Convert Points
- Creating Geopoints by Surface
- Create Description Key Set
- Delete a description key
- Modify Description Key Set
- Layers Functional Bar
- Layer Translator
- Hiding the Point Cloud
- Offset Dimension
- Project Objects onto a Surface
- Create a Description Key
- Texture Editor
- Delete Description Key Set

Field

Fields

CAD drafting Field 0 Ribbon: Insert – Data > CAD software Field 1 Field

CAD drawing Field 2 Menu: Insert – CAD drafting Field 3 Field…

CAD software Field 4 Text format dialog: CAD drawing Field 5

CAD drafting Field 6 Context menu of Text and Multiline text: Insert field

CAD software Field 7 Attribute definition dialog: CAD drawing Field 8

CAD drafting Field 9 Attribute redefinition dialog: CAD software Field 10

CAD drawing Field 11 Command line: FIELD

Field is special object that contains properties of other object (primitive, file, document, etc.). Field can be updated automatically as the field value changes. Field can be inserted to text, multiline text, block attribute.

Note: Field value displays with grey background, but background does not appear in print.

Note: A field without value display like (----).

FIELD command creates a multiline text object with only one field. Command opens Field dialog box. Set field type and format at the dialog. Then specify start point to insert the field. Field assigned the current text style.

Field can be inserted in text and multiline text through Insert field… in context menu and in attribute definition, in multiline text through the CAD drafting Field 12 button.

“Field” Dialog Box

The Field dialog box opens whenever the user requests to insert a field. In this window, first of all, you need to specify the type of field to be inserted.

CAD software Field 13

Fields vary in type. Field types are divided into categories. Available field types are shown in Field names list. Field category is filter for Field names list.

Often field shows the property of any text object. Available formats for text fields: Uppercase, Lowercase, First capital, Title case, and none if you don’t need to change text format in field.

Field can show the numeric value of the property. For example, polyline area: select Object field name from Objects category.

CAD drawing Field 14

Then click CAD drafting Field 15 button and select needed polyline. Select Area property format and precision.

Named object field from Objects category displays names of blocks, views, dimension styles, layers, text styles, linetype styles.

Note: ##### symbols show fields of deleted objects.

Some fields can be context-depended, their value depends on context location – bookmark sheet name, name of plotter for different sheets.

Contextual fields in blocks and external references are not updated when you insert them into a drawing, the field displays the last cached value. Therefore, if you want to use a contextual field in a block, you must insert the field as an attribute.

Fields Categories and Types

All objects are divided into field categories: Date & Time, Document, Plot, Other, Objects. All category shows fields of all categories.

Date & Time:

Create Date	Date and time of the file creation.
Date	Current date and time.
Plot Date	Date and time of the last print.
Save Date	Date and time of the last save.

Document:

Author	Author from file properties.
Comments	Comments from file properties.
CustomProperty	Value of custom property from file properties.
Filename	The name of drawing file.
Filesize	The size of the last saved version of drawing.
HyperlinkBase	Hyperlink base from file properties.
Keywords	Keywords from file properties.
LastSavedBy	Author of the last save.
Subject	Subject from file properties.
Title	Title from file properties.

Plot:

DeviceName	Name of device for layout plot.
Login	Login of current user.
PageSetupName	Name of page setup for layout.
PaperSize	Paper format.
PlotDate	The date and time of the last plot.
PlotOrientation	Orientation of paper.
PlotScale	Plot scale for layout.
PlotStyleTable	The name of plot style table.

Other:

DieselExpression	Value of Diesel expression.
SystemVariable	Value of system variable.

Objects:

BlockPlaceholder	Block reference property. Only accessible in the block editor
NamedObject	Name of named object: layer, style, etc.
Object	Value of primitive property.
Formula	Math expression, may contain other fields.

Options for fields in this category:

Display value for block reference – the checkbox is displayed only for object properties fields that are located inside the block. For example, when editing a field inside a block attribute definition.

CAD software Field 16

CAD drawing Field 17

The parameter obliges the property to calculate its value relative to the size and orientation of the block reference in the drawing, and not relative to the internal block description space. So, for example, the coordinates of the center of the object included in the block will be calculated relative to the drawing coordinate system, and not relative to the coordinates of the block definition.

SheetSet Cathegory:

CurrentSheetCustom	Value of additional property of the current sheet
CurrentSheetDescription	Description in the Sheet group of properties
CurrentSheetIssuePurpose	Purpose in theSheet properties
CurrentSheetNumber	Number in the Sheet properties
CurrentSheetNumberAndTitle	Combination of Number and Title of sheet
CurrentSheetRevisionDate	Revision date in the sheet properties
CurrentSheetRevisionNumber	Revision number in the sheet properties
CurrentSheetSet	Name in the Sheet Set Properties
CurrentSheetSetCategory	Category in the sheet properties
CurrentSheetSetCustom	Value of a Sheet Set Custom Property
CurrentSheetSetCustomerFullName	Customer full name of the current sheet set
CurrentSheetSetCustomerShortName	Customer short name of the current sheet set
CurrentSheetSetDescription	Description in the Sheet Set properties group
CurrentSheetSetObjectName	Object name of the current sheet set
CurrentSheetSetOrganizationName	Organization name of sheet set
CurrentSheetSetProjectMilestone	Project milestone in the Project Control group
CurrentSheetSetProjectName	Project name in the Project Control group
CurrentSheetSetProjectNumber	Project number in the Project Control group
CurrentSheetSetProjectPhase	Project phase in the Project Control group
CurrentSheetSetSheetsCount	Number of sheets in the current sheet set
CurrentSheetSetVolumeNumber	Volume number of the current sheet set
CurrentSheetSetYearOfManufacture	Year of manufacture of sheet set
CurrentSheetSubSet	Subset name
CurrentSheetTitle	Title in the sheet properties
CurrentSheeSetViewTitle	Title of the sheet set view
CurrentSubsetCustom	Value of custom property of subset

CurrentSubsetSheetsCount	Number of sheets in the current subset
CurrentSheetViewNumberAndTitle	Combination of Number and Title of sheet view

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