How to display full path of the drawing in ZWCAD title bar?

Issue:

On ZWCAD title bar, it displays the file name only; you want it to show the full path. How?

Solution:

Run command OPTIONS to open configure dialog box, go to ‘Open and Save’ tab, check on the option ‘display full path in title’.

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CAD hot tips: how to go back to a special step after overusing UNDO?

Issue:

UNDO is useful to cancel the mistake and go back to the right state, we can use Ctrl+Z or command UNDO to make it work in ZWCAD. But sometimes you might overuse it and want to go back to a special step, how?

Solution:

Input command MREDO and then input the step that you want to restore. This command is used to reverse the effects of several previous UNDO or U commands. Besides, you can also use Ctrl+Y to go back step by step.

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How to make a curved 3d object smooth in ZWCAD?

 Issue:

The 3D models shows as faceted in CAD.

Solution:

In ZWCAD, set the variable ‘Facetres’ to a higher value, this variable is used to adjusts the smoothness of shaded/rendered /hidden 3D model. Valid values are from 0.01 to 10.0, the higher the value is, the smoother the 3D model looks like.

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CAD tips: File extension SV$, what is SV$? How to open SV$ file?

Issue:

After using ZWCAD for a while, you find there are some file with SV$ as extension in your folder. What is this file? How to open it?

Solution:

The SV$ file is automatically saved DWG file. If you start the automatic save option, your drawing is saved at specified time intervals. By default, system assigned the name filename.sv$ for temporarily saved files, filename here refers to current drawing name.

The temporary files are removed automatically when a drawing closes normally. However, these files are not deleted if there is a program failure or power failure. You can recover the drawing by reverting to a previous version of your drawing from the automatically saved file. In order to do that, you have to rename the file using a .dwg extension. You can find SV$ file from “C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp”

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ZWCAD hot tips: the shortcut keys to switch viewport in layout.

Issue: 

there are some viewports in layout space, we double click within the viewport to activate the viewport, if we want to choose other we double click other viewport. But there is a shortcut key to save the double key with mouse.

Solution: 

press CTRL+R to cycle through the existing layout viewports.

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How to add custom hatch in CAD?

Issue:

You want to add your customized hatch pattern in ZWCAD+.

Solution:

You can use you customized hatch pattern by these steps:

Step 1: copy hatch pattern file to ZWCAD+ installation folder, for example: C:\Program Files\ZWCAD+ 2012

Step 2: run HATCH command in ZWCAD+, open Hatch Pattern Palette dialog box and go to Custom tag, there you can find the customized hatch pattern you just add.

Note: you can also add the path where the pattern is saved in your computer to the Hatch Pattern File Search Path, in this way you don’t need to copy the pattern into ZWCAD+.

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CAD hot tips: merge layers in order to move all the objects on a certain layer onto another layer.

Issue:

There are so many layers in the drawing and some of them are redundant. You want to put all the objects from a redundant layer onto another layer, is that a quick way to make it?

Solution:

Use command LAYMRG. This command enables to merge selected layers into a target layer, removing the previous layers from the drawing. It is useful to get rid of unwanted layers in CAD.

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