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progeCAD Professional manual The low-cost alternative to AutoCAD
- Introduction
- Getting started
- Working with drawings
- Creating a new drawing
- Opening a drawing
- 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 the grid, snap alignment and cursor restriction
- 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
- Creating simple entities
- Creating complex entities
- Viewing your drawing
- Working with coordinates
- Working with the progeCAD Explorer
- Using the progeCAD Explorer
- Organizing information on layers
- Working with linetypes
- Working with text fonts and styles
- Working with coordinate systems
- Using named views
- Working with blocks and external references
- Working with dimension styles
- Getting drawing information
- Modifying entities
- Working with text
- Dimensioning your drawing
- Working with blocks
- Working with attributes
- Working with external references
- iCADLib
- Printing drawings
- Getting started printing
- Defining layouts for printing
- Customizing print options
- Printing or plotting your drawing
- Print a PDF or JPG file
- Print a Viewport with hidden lines or shaded mode
- Drawing in three dimensions
- Render
- O2C Converter
- Google Earth
- Working with other programs
- Saving and viewing snapshots
- Using data from other programs in progeCAD drawings
- Using progeCAD data in other programs
- Using progeCAD with the Internet
- Other programs
- Image
- Customizing progeCAD
- Setting and changing options
- Customizing menus
- Customizing toolbars
- Customizing the keyboard
- Creating aliases
- Customizing entities
- Creating and replaying scripts
- Programming progeCAD
- Using a digitizer tablet
- 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
- progeCAD-AutoCAD list of terms
- Understanding AutoCAD compatibility
- Glossary
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Customizing progeCAD - Programming progeCAD - Using ADS applications
Understanding ADS compatibility
The primary difference between ADS and SDS is that all SDS functions have an sds_ prefix, and ADS functions have a variety of prefixes, such as ads_, acad_, and acrx_. The exception is dialog-related SDS functions, which have a dlg_ prefix. progeCAD accepts either prefix. Other differences include the additional SDS functions listed in the following table.
SDS function name | Description |
|---|---|
sds_grclear | Clears all graphics from the drawing window; similar to the LISP ( grclear ) function. |
sds_name_clear | Clears the entity name or selection set. |
sds_name_equal | Verifies whether two entity names or selection sets are equal. |
sds_name_nil | Verifies whether the entity name or selection set has been cleared. |
sds_name_set | Copies one entity name or selection set to another drawing. |
sds_pmtssget | Similar to the ads_ssget function, but allows you to display a prompt appropriate for the specific command, rather than the generic "Select object" prompt. |
sds_point_set | Copies a point from one variable to another. |
sds_progresspercent | Displays the percentage done in a progress bar. |
sds_progressstart | Starts the progress bar. |
sds_progressstop | Ends the progress bar. |
sds_readaliasfile | Loads the PGP file into progeCAD. |
sds_sendmessage | Sends a message to the progeCAD command line. |
sds_swapscreen | Flips the off-screen device context to the display. |
Some ADS functions are not supported in SDS, including: ads__msize, ads_ssgetx, ads_ssnamex, ads_tablet, ads_ssGetKwordCallbackPtr, ads_ssGetOtherCallbackPtr, and adsw_acadDocWnd.
For more information
- Read the online documentation for SDS functions.
- See the \progeCAD ...\Api\Sds folder, which contains the SDS include, header, and library files.