GstarCAD
GstarCAD 2018 Release
What is GstarCAD?
Familiar Interface
Files & Print
2D Drafting
Design
Customization
What’s new

GstarCAD 2018 Release

With great software performance and more efficient design tools, GstarCAD 2018 offers brand new experience in both architectural and mechanical design!

1. The performance optimization plays an important role in GstarCAD 2018. The performance of common-use operations like “OPEN”, “QSAVE”, “PLOT”, “CLIP”, “TRIM”, “PASTE”, “MOVE”, “DYNAMIC SELECTION”, and more commands are significantly enhanced. The overall drawing performance is even better than ACAD when handling big drawings.
2. Support the latest DWG 2018 format together with more compatible features.
3. New productive and practical innovations help to accomplish designs faster. These functions include “Attribute Increment”, “DWG Convert”, “Section Plane”, “Area Table”, “Display Plot Styles”, and so on.

What is GstarCAD ?

GstarCAD is well-known alternative CAD software of high compatibility with ACAD. With 25 years of continuous improvement and lean innovation, today GstarCAD is far ahead in performance, stability and other key indicators and becomes leading CAD software in the world.

Independent Property Rights

GstarCAD is based on independent intellectual property rights and patented core technologies owned by Gstarsoft.

Friendly User Interface

User interface and operating habits are very similar to ACAD, which is easier to operate and use. Zero training is needed for ACAD users.

Data Compatibility

Completely compatible with ACAD in data format, supporting the latest DWG/DXF up to version 2018.

Innovative Technologies

Unique and innovative technologies like Intelligent Display, Hierarchical Memory Exchange and Graphics Data Adaptive Compression are adopted to significantly enhances the speed in handling large drawings.

Application Development

Code-level compatible APIs ensures LISP/FAS/VLX plug-ins programed on ACAD can directly run on GstarCAD while VBA/.NET/ARX plug-ins can be seamlessly transplanted.

Multi-platform Application

View, manage and share DWG drawings from multiple devices by one click and enjoy mobile design and communication together with more than 10,000,000 DWG FastView users around the world.

Familiar Interface

Workspaces switching & interface appearance

2D Drafting and classic interface can be switched in a wink. 2D drafting interface is supported by a ribbon with its tabs and panels. It displays the most used commands as thumbnails for easy selection. Classic interface is supported by toolbars and it’s the most preferred by old users. Interface appearance makes your drawing environment more comfortable because it supports options for applying different themes as well as show or hide the menu bar, toolbars, file tabs and status bar.

Dynamic input

Dynamic Input provides a command interface near the cursor to help you keep your focus in the drafting area. Save time typing and finding out whatever longer or shorter command. Dynamic input can autocomplete the command name at once.

Property and Tool Palette

Properties palette displays the properties of the selected object or set of objects. You can specify a new value to modify any property that can be changed. Tool palette provides an efficient method for organizing and placing blocks.

Design Center

Design Center provides a graphic interface where you can manipulate and re-use drawings and their objects (blocks, layers, external references, and customized contents) from drawing files, network drives, and Internet locations. This way, you can speed up drawing constructing.

: Command Line

You can enter a command by using the keyboard. You can also repeat the previous command by pressing Enter or Spacebar without entering a command.

: Clean Screen

If you want to maximize drawing space, you can press “CTRL+0” or click Clean Screen icon on the right of status bar to hide Toolbars, Windows or Ribbon.

: File Tabs

File tabs offer a fast way to switch the opening-drawings, and you can change the opening-order by draging tabs. It also has built in functionalty like save, close, audit and properties.

: Lock UI

Lock the position of toolbar/window. The lock icon in the status bar indicates whether Toolbar/Window is locked. Click the icon to display locking options.

Layer Properties Manager & Layer States Manager

Layer properties manager displays a list of the layers in the drawing and their properties. You can add, delete, and rename layers, change their properties, set property overrides for layout viewports, or add layer descriptions and apply changes in real time.

Layer states manager enables you save the current property settings for layers in a named layer state and then restore those settings later.

Files & Print

My Cloud

GstarCAD provides free cloud storage to registered users. If your are a registered user, you can share drawings with DWG FastView for Web, DWG FastView for Mobile and DWG FastView for Windows. You can easily view your drawings from web page, mobile phone or computer, making design work more free and convenient.

PDF Underlay

You can insert PDF files as reference underlay.

DNG Underlay

You can insert DGN files as reference underlay.

DWF Underlay

You can insert DWF files as reference underlay.

Drawing Compare

Compare drawing files of different version to identify the design changes. Colors are used to mark changed objects between old and new drawing files.

Graphic Compare

Compare drawings of similar appearance in the same drawing file to identify detailed geometric differences. Contrast results is inserted into the current drawing area.

: Batch Purge

No need to open files. It can purge the excess objects such as blocks, layers, line type, dimension style or text style on several DWG files at the same time.

: Batch Print

Batch print drawings with the same drawing frame attribute and to save engineer’s time to improve efficiency.

: Drawing Lock

Turn the drawing into a whole block. Others can’t modify the objects of the original drawing. It is a good way to prevent others from modifying the drawing.

: Import and Export

GstarCAD supports the following data format. Import: WMF,SAT,DGN,DWF,3DS Export: DWF,DWFX,WMF, SAT,STL,EPS,DXX,BMP.

: Barcode

Generate Barcode and insert into drawing. Quickly find out the corresponding drawing later by scanning and identifiying Barcode.

: QR Code

Users can insert a QR into a drawing, it can save drawings’ related information like company name, then you can access the information through mobile.

2D Drafting

AutoXlsTable and CAD Table to Excel

Autoxlstable allows create a sheet or table directly in Microsoft Excel to be inserted to GstarCAD automatically. CAD Table to Excel export accurately a sheet or table, composed by line/Spline and text/Mtext from GstarCAD to Microsoft Excel.

Dynamic Block and Dynamic Block Editor

Dynamic Block function can save your time and make you specify drawings easily. You don’t need to repeatedly draw a series of standard components. This function can reduce your cumbersome block libraries in the process. What’s more, you can create and modify dynamic blocks properties in the Dynamic Block Editor.

Magnifier

This tool helps to view a specific area of your drawing as a magnifier with the capability of snap points without performing zoom in/outon big drawings like map or survey and also is practical to use and customize. Save time on exploring small details of your drawing or even drafting in a jungle of intersected objects easy and quickly.



: Pline Boolean

Directly conduct SUBTRACT/UNION/INTERSECT calculation without converting polylines to regions. This command is 3 or 4 times quicker than TRIM.

: Dimension tools

Dimension Tools provide accurate values for the objects, including Quick Dimension, Linear Dimension, Angular Dimension, Baseline Dimension, etc.

: Annotation Scale

Annotation Scale automatically adjusts size of objects, such as text, dimension, block, etc. You can quickly and easily handle drawings of different scales.

Revision Cloud

Revision Cloud consists of a continuous polyline.

You can use it to call attention to parts of a drawing during the review stage.

: Multileader

Multileader is an annotative function and is used to attach annotation to multiple leader lines. Multileader give information or special instruction.

Query total area

This function is not only able to query length and

area but also radius, angle, volume, total area and total length.Meet the needs of different users.

Express tools

Express tools contain a library of productivity tools designed to help you extend the power of your design. They are easy to use, easily integrated into your menus and toolbars, and cover a wide range of functions, including dimensioning, drawing, selecting and modifying objects.

Design

3D orbit options

3D orbit options like: Free Orbit, 3D Continuous Orbit, Orbit along the X-axis, Orbit along the Y-axis, Orbit along Z-orbit and 3D Orbit Center allows rotate the view in 3D space or even you can apply a shortcut (SHIFT+SCROLL MOUSE).

Visual Styles

Visual styles control the display of edges and shading a viewport. You can control the effect of a visual style by switching each other. When you apply any visual style, the associated viewport is automatically updated to reflect those changes.

3D Face and mesh modeling

3D face allows to create a three or four-sided surface anywhere in 3D space. Mesh Modeling creates a free-form polygon mesh. You can reshape mesh objects by smoothing, creasing, refining, and splitting faces. You can also drag edges, faces, and vertices to mold the overall form.

Solid and solid editing

3D solid objects often start as one of several basic shapes, or primitives, that you can then edit and recombine. Some samples of solid editing capability enables you join two solids, subtract one from the other, or create a shape based on the intersection of their volumes.

Profiles and Sections

2D profile and sections can be generated from a 3D model through SOLPROF, SOLDRAW and SOLVIEW commands. Solprof creates 2D projection profile of 3D model consisting of visible and hidden lines. Solview creates orthographic views, layers, and layout viewports automatically. Soldraw generates profiles and sections in layout viewports created with SOLVIEW.

Render and Materials

Render gives a photorealistic shaded image of a 3D solid or surface model, improving visualization. You can apply materials to your 3D model to define the shininess, bumpiness, and transparency of object’s surfaces to give them a realistic appearance.

Customization

Quick access customization

Manages the customized quick access toolbar elements in the product. Add or delete commands at the quick access toolbar to make the drawing environment specific to certain types of tasks.

User interface customization

Manages the customized user interface elements in the product. Customize the user interface to make the drawing environment specific to certain types of tasks.

Command aliases

A command alias is an abbreviation that you enter at the command prompt instead of entering the entire command name.Such as you can enter C instead of circle to start the CIRCLE command.

Shortcuts customize

Shortcuts customize provides a faster way to invoke a command. The CUSTACC command allows you to customize, delete or modify existing command shortcuts.Such as CTRL+S for SAVE.

Object GRX

Object GRX technology provides the foundation for design software applications to share intelligent object data. You can run third-party Object GRX application programs or write your own.Plug-in applictions developed with VBA/GRX/DBX/Lisp/Vlisp can be loaded to GstarCAD.

.Net Framework

GstarCAD .NET API enables you to manipulate the application and drawing files programmatically with libraries that are exposed and can be accessed by many different programming languages and environments. Users are able to automate tasks such as creating and modifying objects stored in the database of a drawing file or change the contents of a customization file.