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GstarCAD2010 Tutorial

Company Introduction Gstarsoft is a world-leading CAD software provider and CAD technology ISP. With over 15 years experience in CAD development, and selling, Gstarsoft has already offered a reliable DWG-based CAD solutions at an affordable price. Our products meet the demands of customers across the 2D/3D design industry. Gstarsoft has made advanced technology cooperation with many well-known organizations such as Autodesk(redevelop on AutoCAD), Microsoft, Intel, Xerox, as well as Tsinghua & Nanjing University. It is the first commercial member of ITC (IntelliCAD Technology Consortium) & the founding member of ODA(Open Design Alliance) shareing CAD technology with 50+ CAD developers. Our flagship product---GstarCAD is unrivaled CAD platform which could be fully compatible with AutoCAD. Due to GstarCAD’s full compatibility, excellent stability, rich functionality and our good customer service, Gstarsoft has won thousands of loyal customers, such as Intel, SIEMENS, Schneider Electric, PHILIPS, SONY, HITACHI, CORNING etc 。 involved various fields such as construction, transportation, machinery, posts and telecommunications, light industry, petrochemical, coal, metallurgy, electric power, manufacturing industry. Gstarsoft defeated AutoCAD dominant position in China market and is leading domestic CAD platform sales. Gstarsoft bends itself to being the Chinese biggest CAD software company in the coming 1~2 years and setup reputation in the international market.

The Version Introduction of GstarCAD GstarCAD2010 provides s with standard and professional version. The standard version provides the powerful functions for 2D drafting, besides the common functions, it also includes the express tools, customization settings, LISP and SDS (equivalent to ADS). With all the features that GstarCAD Standard version has, the Professional version also offers a simple 3D solid modeling environment (3D ACIS) and the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) development environment. There are more than 150,000 customers in about 60 different countries using GstarCAD. In order to help our customers design with GstarCAD more conveniently, we are preparing for more and more local versions. Now, these versions are available: English, Japanese, Polish, Czech, German, Korean, Russian, Traditional Chinese.

Special Features Compatible with AutoCAD 2010 DWG file GstarCAD2010 use the latest ODA library and can open AutoCAD 2010 DWG file  AutoXLSTable AutoXlsTable can transform table between EXCEL and CAD and can block quantity、object area and length. The data in the table will be updated automatically according to the modification of object 

3D Solid Render GstarCAD2010 3D rendering functions, including light source, material, the rendering background、render settings. Render Window s the rotation and zoom and can observe the rendering effect dynamically  In-Place MTEXT Editor GstarCAD2010’s brand-new In-Place MTEXT Editor is almost the same to the advanced AutoCAD, it will make your work experience more efficient with new and improved functions, such as, a new text formatting toolbar, a new dialog box for formatting paragraphs, and a new display options menu. Thus, you can create and edit text objects freely as in other professional word processing software. 

The Edit of External Reference GstarCAD2010 s the reference editing of external reference.  Etransmit Packages a set of files for Internet transmission  Dimension associative GstarCAD2010 realize the dimension associative in model space. When the system variable “dimassoc” is set as 2, if the associative point on the object changes the dimension place，orientation, value will update automatically. 

Aerial View can modify the place of view in the current viewport quickly with Aerial View and position the drawing.  DWG Preview Plug-in After installation GstarCAD2010, can browse the thumbnail of DWG drawing with Windows Resource Manager, and it is very convenient to position the drawing.  Enhanced APIs The GRX API is highly compatible with ARX; VBA is compatible with all AutoCAD code; VLX files can be read directly, FAS files can be loaded and run directly  Print drivers Many built-in print drivers were added to GstarCAD2010, The built-in driver contains HP 、OCE、Canon and etc. 

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Print Highlight and Partial Preview

The plot area will be highlighted when selecting plot window. Partial Preview is displayed on the print dialog box

Design and Tool Palette The design center in GstarCAD2010 s to browse and insert pictures; 

can drag block to drawing area; can drag the block to tool palettes directly

Using GstarCAD2010 tool palettes, can organize、manage、use customized drawing library conveniently. Multiple grips edit can use one grip to copy, stretch, move, rotate, scale, mirror object, but also can use multiple grips to edit multiple objects at the same time. 

Drawing Encryption When modifying or saving file, you can encrypt the file by inputting in GstarCAD2010, so it can guarantee the security of our 

customer’s drawings.

CUI (Customize Interface) GstarCAD2010 could customize interface elements such as toolbars, menus, shortcut by simply pulling and dragging. It is visualized and convenient. s can draw new icon using button editor, GstarCAD2010 also MNU file loading. 

The registry of GstarCAD2010 There are two authorization methods: activation code and dongle. Dongle is divided into stand-alone version and network version. 1. Dongle Dongle is divided into stand-alone version and network version. A stand-alone version belongs to a single customer, you needn’t install driver, software will finish the automatically. Network version should be set up on the server (any computer in network), but the number of s should limit within the authorized number by the network lock. If you install network version please select any a computer as the server, and install network lock driver at this server computer (the network lock driver is in the Driver content). When you install GstarCAD2010 at

customer end, please select “Network”, once you start CAD, and the software will automatically search for network lock to finish ing. If the software is still in the tryout situation, please input the server name or IP address at the program item of GstarCAD2010. If there still doesn’t work well please check firewall settings or with us. If you want to use network lock at different net, you should set a system variable at your customer end, the steps is below: Start>Control >System>Advanced>Environment Variables>New a environment variable, the variable name is "NSP_HOST"，the variable value is the IP address of the Server 2. Registration Number The operation step about registration number is below: 1). Install the stand-alone GstarCAD2010 Click Help>, GstarCAD2010 will generate a product number, this product number is corresponding to your computer. You should send the product number to our company, we will calculate a serial number and a activation number for you according your product number. 2). Open “Activation” dialog box, input the serial and activation number, then click Activate button to finish 3). Restart GstarCAD2010, and check whether the software has been activated.

The installation of GstarCAD2010 The GstarCAD2010 installation program will lead you to finish the installation, the installation program will automatically create a folder which contains all programs, at the same time a program startup bar will be created at the “Start” menu of Windows, a shortcut icon will be created at desktop. s can use CD or copy installation program to your personal PC or the hard disc of server to install. Install steps: 1.Enter the GstarCAD2010 installation content, double-click the execute file, the installation setup interface is displayed and prompt that system is preparing “Installation wizard” and do some preparation for installation. 2. After “Installation wizard” finishes installing, Installation wizard dialog is displayed. Click “next” button to continue installing.

3. “License Agreement” dialog box is displayed, as the below picture, if you agree with the agreement, click “I Agree” to continue

4. The information dialog box is displayed, after you inputting information, click “Next” button

5. “Installation type” dialog box is displayed, as the below. If you buy Stand-alone version or try software, you can use the default stand-alone to install; if you buy the network version, please select “Network” to install.

6. After you select the right installation type, click “Next” button, “Choose Destination Location”

dialog box is displayed, as the below. Click “Browse” button to select anther folder.

7. Click “Next” button, “Start Copying Files” dialog box is displayed, can check or modify the inputted information through this dialog box. If there are some information to modify, click “Back” button to return to the last dialog box to modify; If there are no information to modify, click “Next” button and the system begin to install the software.

Click “Finish” to complete the software installation

How to Update Please follow these instructions to upgrade GstarCAD2010 from any former version -- GstarCAD 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009. If necessary, the reseller. GstarCAD2010 now s two methods of encryption, through a hardware dongle and by software encryption. When upgrading to GstarCAD2010, you can keep the current form of encryption

Upgrading with Hardware Encryption Procedure: 1. Install GstarCAD2010 2. Plug the dongle into the computer 3. You will see a “update” button in the registry dialog box. 4. You will see a product number in the registry dialog box, this product number is created by this single dongle automatically not the computer, it is corresponding with the dongle one by one.

5. Send the product number to the local reseller, the reseller will return you a serial number and activate number 6. Start GstarCAD2010, input the serial number and activate number in the registry dialog box, click the “update” button 7. Restart GstarCAD2010 to finish the remote update.

Upgrading with Software Encryption Procedures: 1. Install GstarCAD2010 2. You will see a “activate” button in the registry dialog box. 3. You will see a product number in the registry dialog box, this product number is created by this computer, it is corresponding with the computer one by one. 5. Send the product number to the local reseller, the reseller will return you a serial number and activate number 6. Start GstarCAD2010, input the serial number and activate number in the registry dialog box, click the “activate” button 7. Restart GstarCAD2010 to finish the remote update.

As a genuine CAD drawing software based on IntelliCAD, our customers can enjoy both a competitive price and a 30-day free tryout and from GstarCAD with unlimited technical via Email, MSN or Live . You can us at: [email protected]. Besides, you may leave us a message on our website. If there were some questions which need local , we would also e-mail the reseller information in your area to offer local CAD .