This application is built on the concept of tools. Loosely speaking, a tool for hsCADCreator is an implementation of ability to perform a certain class of operation or procedure with regards to viewing and editing a drawing. All tool gives different type of notifications in notification window as you advance to different steps.

 

 

Tool Modes

 

Tool Properties

Each tool may have a set of properties associated with it. Tool properties can be changed to change the tool's behavior.

 

hsCADCreator has always one active tool at any time. There may be more than one tools on Tool Stack but only one tool is active at any given time.

 

hsCADCreator has six different tool categories available to the user in addition to the standard file tools:

 

1   Create Tools : Tools used to draw an entity

 

2   Modify Tools : Tools used to change an existing entity in the drawing.

 

3   View Tools : Tools used to alter viewing parameters (i.e. camera location, camera angle, camera zoom level, etc.)

 

4   Draw Plane(UCS) Tools : Tools used to create/edit User coordinate system.

 

5.  Rendering Tools : Tools used to produce the different rendering view of the drawing.

 

6.  Library Tools : Tools used to add, remove, or modify specialized object types

 

7.  Measure Tools : Tools to measure lengths and area