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progeCAD Professional manual
The low-cost alternative to AutoCAD
Introduction
About progeCAD and other CAD software
Using AutoCAD legacy drawings
Using AutoCAD commands with progeCAD
Comparing progeCAD and CAD to manual drafting
Drawing to scale
Using tools
Organizing information
Drawing accurately
Drawing efficiently
Reusing CAD drawings and entities
Making changes
Working with other data and programs
Using advanced CAD features
Using the progeCAD Explorer
Editing multiple documents simultaneously
Editing multiple entities
Using the Customize dialog box
Performing unlimited undo and redo
Getting more information
Getting started
System requirements
Starting progeCAD
Working in progeCAD
Displaying commands on a shortcut menu
Displaying and hiding toolbars
Using the command bar
Using the status bar
Drawing tabs
Using prompt boxes
Selecting commands
Using commands
Starting commands using toolbars
Starting commands using menus
Starting commands using the command bar
Repeating a command
Nesting a command
Modifying a command
Using the Prompt History window
Using mouse shortcuts
Using scripts
Correcting mistakes
Customizing progeCAD
Getting online Help
Saving your drawing
Exiting progeCAD
Working with drawings
Creating a new drawing
Opening a drawing
Opening an existing drawing
Opening damaged files
Click Open.
Setting up a drawing
Setting the current layer
Layer Properties Manager
Creating and naming layers
Locking and unlocking layers
Setting the current entity color
Setting the current linetype
Setting the linetype scale
Setting the current lineweight
Setting the current print style
Setting drawing units
Understanding scale factors
Setting the text height
Setting the drawing limits
Working with colors
Using index colors
Using true colors
Using color books
Using the grid, snap alignment and cursor restriction
Setting a reference grid
Setting snap spacing
Changing the snap and grid angle and base point
Using isometric snap and grid
Using orthogonal locking
Using entity snaps
Setting entity snaps
Nearest Snap tool
Endpoint Snap tool
Midpoint Snap tool
Center Snap tool
Perpendicular Snap tool
Tangent Snap tool
Quadrant Snap tool
Insertion Point Snap tool
Point Snap tool
Mid between two point Snap tool
Intersection Snap tool
Apparent Intersection Snap tool
Quick Snap command
Clear Entity Snaps tool
Using fly-over snapping
Etrack Snap tracking
Polar Snap tracking
Saving your drawing
Saving a drawing
Saving a drawing with a new name or file format
Saving a drawing with a password
Creating simple entities
Drawing lines
Drawing circles
Specify the radius of the circle.
Drawing arcs
Specify the endpoint.
Specify the endpoint.
Drawing ellipses
Drawing elliptical arcs
Specify the end angle.
Creating point entities
Changing the size and appearance of point entities
Drawing rays
Drawing infinite lines
Creating freehand sketches
Erasing freehand sketch lines
Setting the sketch method and accuracy
Creating complex entities
Drawing rectangles
Drawing polygons
Drawing polygons by side
Drawing polylines
Drawing double line
Drawing traces
Drawing a revision clouds
Arc Length
Drawing splines
Specifying fit tolerance
Drawing a closed spline
Drawing donuts
Creating planes
Drawing wipeouts
Drawing wipeouts using polygons and polylines
Turning wipeout frames on or off
Creating boundary polylines
Using islands and island detection
Adding hatching
Specifying a hatch pattern
Selecting entities for hatching
Selecting areas for hatching
Gradient hatch
Viewing your drawing
Redrawing and regenerating a drawing
Moving around within a drawing
Using scroll bars
Using the Pan command
Specify the pan displacement point either by typing the coordinates or by specifying a point in the drawing window.
Rotating the view in real time
Changing the magnification of your drawing
Zooming in and out
Zooming methods
Displaying the previous view of a drawing
Zooming to a specific scale
Combining zooming and panning
Displaying the entire drawing
Aereal view
Displaying multiple views
Working with multiple views of a single drawing
Opening a new window of the same drawing
Dividing the current window into multiple views
Saving window configurations
Working with multiple drawings
Controlling visual elements
Turning Fill on and off
Turning Quick Text on and off
Turning highlighting on and off
Turning Blips on and off
Controlling the display of lineweights
Working with coordinates
Using Cartesian coordinates
Understanding how coordinate systems work
Understanding how coordinates are displayed
Finding the coordinates of a point
Using two-dimensional coordinates
Entering absolute Cartesian coordinates
Entering relative Cartesian coordinates
Entering polar coordinates
Using three-dimensional coordinates
Using the right-hand rule
Entering x,y,z-coordinates
Entering spherical coordinates
Entering cylindrical coordinates
Using xyz point filters
Using point filters in two dimensions
Using point filters in three dimensions
Defining user coordinate systems
Defining a user coordinate system
In the progeCAD Explorer - Coordinate Systems dialog box, type the name for the new UCS, and then close the dialog box.
Using a preset user coordinate system
Working with the progeCAD Explorer
Using the progeCAD Explorer
Copying settings
Deleting settings
Purging elements
Organizing information on layers
Creating and naming layers
Setting the current layer
Controlling layer visibility
Locking and unlocking layers
To complete the command and return to your drawing, close the window.
Controlling layer printing
Setting the layer color
Setting a layer's linetype
Setting a layer's lineweight
Setting a layer's print style
Working with linetypes
Setting the current linetype
Loading additional linetypes
Creating and naming linetypes
Syntax for a complex linetype definition
Editing linetypes
Working with text fonts and styles
Creating and naming text styles
Modifying text styles
Setting the current text style
Working with coordinate systems
Defining and naming user coordinate systems
Setting the current user coordinate system
Using named views
Saving and naming views
Restoring named views
Changing named view properties
Working with blocks and external references
Creating and naming blocks
Inserting a block
Inserting a drawing as a block
Attaching a drawing as an external reference
Saving a block as a separate drawing
Working with dimension styles
Creating and naming dimension styles
Getting drawing information
Specifying measurements and divisions
Measuring intervals on entities
Specify the segment length, and then press Enter.
Specify the segment length, and then press Enter.
Dividing entities into segments
Calculating areas
Calculating areas defined by points
Calculating areas of closed entities
Calculating combined areas
To complete the command, choose Done in the prompt box.
Calculating distances and angles
Specify the second point.
Displaying information about your drawing
Displaying information about entities
Displaying the drawing status
Tracking time spent working on a drawing
Modifying entities
Selecting entities
Displaying selected entities highlighted
Entity-selection methods
To complete the Fence, press Enter.
Choosing the command first
Selecting entities first
Deselecting entities
Quick Select
Turning grips on and off
Editing with grips
Modifying the properties of entities
Properties palette
Deleting entities
Copying entities
Copying entities within a drawing
Copying between drawings
Making parallel copies
Mirroring entities
Arraying entities
Rearranging entities
Moving entities
Rotating entities
Reordering entities
Resizing entities
Stretching entities
Scaling entities
Extending entities
Trimming entities
Editing the length of entities
Breaking and joining entities
Breaking entities
Joining entities
Grouping entities
Creating groups
Modifying groups
Ungrouping entities
Remove Groups
Editing polylines
Opening and closing polylines
Curving and decurving polylines
Joining polylines
Changing the polyline width
Editing polyline vertices
Exploding entities
Chamfering and filleting entities
Chamfering entities
Filleting entities
Express
Layer
Blocks
Text
Modify
Tools/Entity Data
Quick Perspective
Working with text
Creating line text
Creating paragraph text
Click OK.
Working with text styles
Formatting text
Setting the line text style
Setting the paragraph text style
Setting the line text alignment
Setting the paragraph text alignment
Including special text characters
Changing text
Changing line text
Changing paragraph text
Find
Checking the spelling
Check Spelling
Main Dictionary
Creating and modifying a custom dictionary
Using an alternate text editor
Selecting an alternate text editor
Creating paragraph text in an alternate text editor
Working with text written in different languages
Using Unicode characters
Specifying character sets for drawings
Dimensioning your drawing
Understanding dimensioning concepts
Creating dimensions
Quick dimensioning
Creating linear dimensions
Specify the dimension line location.
Creating angular dimensions
Specify the dimension arc location.
Creating diametral and radial dimensions
Creating ordinate dimensions
Creating leaders and annotations
Dimensioning model space entities in paper space
Editing dimensions
Making dimensions oblique
Editing dimension text
Understanding dimension styles and variables
Controlling dimension arrows
Controlling dimension format
Controlling line settings
Controlling dimension text
Controlling dimension units
Adding geometric tolerances
Controlling dimension tolerance
Controlling alternate dimension units
Working with blocks
Creating blocks
Inserting blocks
Redefining blocks
Exploding blocks
In-place block edit
Working with attributes
Defining attributes
Editing attribute definitions
Attaching attributes to blocks
Editing attributes attached to blocks
Extracting attribute information
Extract data from attributes
Working with external references
Attaching external references
Viewing the list of external references
Opening external references
Removing external references
Reloading external references
Changing the path for external references
Binding external references to drawings
Clipping external references
Adding a clipping boundary
Turning clipping boundaries on and off
Deleting a clipping boundary
iCADLib
Working with iCADLib
Printing drawings
Getting started printing
Defining layouts for printing
Understanding layouts
Print or plot your drawing. For more details, See Printing or plotting your drawing.
Understanding paper space and model space
Viewing drawings in paper space and model space
Displaying the Model and Layout tabs
Creating a new layout
If desired, rename the layout. For details, See To rename a layout.
Reusing layouts from other files
Managing layouts in a drawing
Type s or press Enter to scroll through the layouts.
Working with layout viewports
Customizing print options
Setting the paper size and paper and drawing orientation
Selecting a printer or plotter
Setting the scale and view
Choosing how lineweights print
Using print styles
Reusing print settings
Printing or plotting your drawing
Previewing a drawing before printing
Printing a drawing
Print a PDF or JPG file
Creating a PDF or JPG File
Print a Viewport with hidden lines or shaded mode
Drawing in three dimensions
Viewing entities in three dimensions
If the view continues to rotate, press Enter or right-click the drawing when finished.
To complete the command, click OK.
Creating three-dimensional entities
Creating Surfaces
Creating Solids
Editing in three dimensions
Editing three-dimensional solids
Hiding, shading, and rendering
Render
Getting Started
Render Command
Full Render Command
Materials Command
Background
Light
Preferences
O2C Converter
O2C Commands
About the O2C Technology
Google Earth
progeCAD Google Earth add-on
Working with other programs
Saving and viewing snapshots
Using data from other programs in progeCAD drawings
Embedding objects into drawings
Linking objects to drawings
Editing an embedded or linked object from within progeCAD
Importing files created in other formats
Importing a DXF, DWF, or DWT file
Importing an ACIS file
Convert PDF to DXF
Import RedLine from progeCAD Viewer Dwg
Using progeCAD data in other programs
Embedding drawings
Editing an embedded progeCAD object in place
Linking drawings
Dragging progeCAD drawings into other programs
Exporting drawings
Exporting to a DWG, DXF, BMP, EMF, WMF, or SVG file
Exporting to a PDF file
Exporting to a DWF file
Exporting to a 3DS, POV or LWO file
Exporting ACIS files
Etransmit
Transmittal setups
Sending drawings through e-mail
Using progeCAD with the Internet
Add hyperlinks to a drawing
Publishing drawings to the Internet
Inserting drawings from a Web site
Accessing the progeCAD Web site during a drawing session
Other programs
Image
Image overview
Image commands
Customizing progeCAD
Setting and changing options
Changing the options on the General tab
Changing the options on the Paths/Files tab
Specifying the user paths
Changing the default system files
Changing the options on the Display tab
Changing the options on the Crosshairs tab
Changing the options on the Profiles tab
Understanding the settings saved in profiles
Creating profiles
Loading a profile
Restoring the default settings
Managing profiles
Working with profiles on multiple computers
Changing the options on the Printing tab
Changing the options on the Snapping tab
Customizing menus
Understanding menu compatibility
Creating new menus and commands
Setting the experience levels for menus
Saving menu files
Loading menu files
Creating custom shortcut menus
Customizing toolbars
Creating a new toolbar
Naming toolbars
Creating flyouts
Setting the experience levels for tools
Creating custom toolbar tools
Importing toolbars
Creating toolbars that you can share as files
Customizing the keyboard
Creating a keyboard shortcut
Saving keyboard shortcut files
Loading keyboard shortcut files
Creating aliases
Creating, redefining, and deleting aliases
Saving alias files
Loading alias files
Customizing entities
Working with audio notes
Attaching audio notes
Selecting audio notes
Playing audio notes
Deleting audio notes
Using shape files
Creating and replaying scripts
Programming progeCAD
Using LISP routines
Using ADS applications
Understanding ADS compatibility
Using DCL with progeCAD
Using VBA
Using DIESEL with IntelliCAD
Using a digitizer tablet
Configuring the tablet
Calibrating the tablet
Understanding transformation types
Customizing the tablet interface
Appendix
Understanding AutoCAD compatibility
Using enhanced AutoCAD commands in progeCAD
Using additional selection sets
Using additional progeCAD commands
Recognizing subtle command differences
Identifying what does not display
Supporting AutoCAD customization
Understanding menu compatibility
Importing and exporting customization files
Programming progeCAD
Understanding AutoLISP compatibility
progeCAD-AutoCAD list of terms
Glossary
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