DWGSee 2022 Help File

Free DWG Viewer

DWGSee is a comprehensive application ideal for viewing, editing, printing, marking and sharing
your DWG files.
DWGSee DWG Viewer 2020 ............................................................................................................ 3
Welcome to DWGSee .................................................................................................................. 3
System Requirements.................................................................................................................. 4
DWGSee Main Features .............................................................................................................. 4
Getting started ............................................................................................................................ 5
What’s New in 2020 version? ...................................................................................................... 5
User interface .............................................................................................................................. 5
File Operation .............................................................................................................................. 7
View ........................................................................................................................................... 24
Markup ...................................................................................................................................... 31
Draw .......................................................................................................................................... 33
Lines ....................................................................................................................................... 33
Curved Objects ...................................................................................................................... 34
Text ........................................................................................................................................ 39
Hatch ..................................................................................................................................... 41
Insert File/Block ..................................................................................................................... 42
Editor ......................................................................................................................................... 43
Modify objects ....................................................................................................................... 44
Change General Object Properties ........................................................................................ 51
Mleader ................................................................................................................................. 53
Block ...................................................................................................................................... 53
Dimension .............................................................................................................................. 55
Tools .......................................................................................................................................... 59
DWGCompare ........................................................................................................................ 59
Find text ................................................................................................................................. 61
Count ..................................................................................................................................... 67
Measure................................................................................................................................. 70
Copy objects .......................................................................................................................... 73
Extract table .......................................................................................................................... 75
Other Tools ............................................................................................................................ 76
Options ...................................................................................................................................... 79
 Xref Manager ......................................................................................................................... 79
Text style setting ................................................................................................................... 83
Dimension style setting ......................................................................................................... 83
Markup dimension settings ................................................................................................... 85
Snap setting ........................................................................................................................... 86
Font path ............................................................................................................................... 87
Layer setting .......................................................................................................................... 87
Other options ........................................................................................................................ 89
Hotkeys ...................................................................................................................................... 90
More Tips ................................................................................................................................... 91
Browser Mode ........................................................................................................................... 91
License ....................................................................................................................................... 94
Floating user license .............................................................................................................. 96

DWGSee DWG Viewer 2022

Welcome to DWGSee

Thanks for choosing DWGSee – View/Edit DWG file without requiring the native AutoCAD
application.
DWGSee is a comprehensive application ideal for viewing, editing, printing, marking and sharing
your DWG files.

DWGSee is a fast, powerful and easy-to-use DWG management system that everyone from
beginners to professionals can use and enjoy.
System Requirements

OS: Compatible with XP, Vista, Win7, Win8, Win10; Windows Server 2003/2008/2008
R2/2012/2012 R2
RAM: 1024MB or greater, executable program takes 30Mb, loaded with a drawing file will take
more RAM depends on the size of drawing file.
HD: 400MB free hard drive spaces to install

DWGSee Main Features

• Support AutoCAD DWG format from R2.5 to the latest version 2022
• Support DWG, DXF and DWF version of AutoCAD
• Preview folders and archive contents by displaying thumbnails of the DWGs on list icons
• Support View Mode and Browse Mode
• Fast DWG view, with mouse zoom, pan
• Draw line/circle/polyline…
• Edit text/block/layer…
• Dimensions
• Support markup, redline
• Markup (rectangle, ellipse, cloud markup)
• Measure length and area with smart snap
• Print DWG/DXF/DWF
• Batch plot DWG/DXF/DWF
• DWG revisions comparison
• Some useful smart tools
• DWG to JPG, DWG to TIFF, DWG to BMP, DWG to GIF Conversion (Pro version only)
• DWG to PDF Conversion (Pro version only)
• Publishing markup in PDF or image format (Pro version only)
• Copy/paste the entire or the whole drawing into MS office as vector image (Pro version
only)
Getting started

After you install DWGSee on your computer, an application icon is placed on the desktop and in
the Start menu.

• Double-click the DWGSee icon on the desktop:

• Click Windows Start | All Programs | AutoDWG DWGSee:

• Set DWGSee as the default open program for dwg/dxf format, and then double-click the
dwg/dxf file to open.

What’s New?

• Objects such as line, polyline, circle, arc, text..., can be easily added into your drawing
• Text, line, layer, block attribute can be edited, or right-click to change the properties.
• Dimensions, notes..., commonly are used to add information to your drawing.

User interface
The DWGSee user interface is designed to provide easy access to tools and features.

Browse Mode
The DWGSee is made up of two panes:
Folders Pane -- This pane displays the directory structure of your computer. You can browse
through the folders and view their DWG contents in the File List pane.

File List Pane -- This pane displays the contents of the currently selected folder.

You can open and close Folders pane, move them to different areas on your screen, and dock
them on. The Browser toolbar is located at the top of the Browser, under the menu bar.

View Mode
The DWGSee Viewer display DWGs in full resolution one at a time.

The Viewer window contains four main areas:

Menu bar

Viewer toolbar:

Locate at the top of the Viewer and below the menu bar. Provide shortcut buttons to commonly
used tools and commands, such as the zoom and markup tools.

View area:

This is the main Viewer area, where the current DWG or DXF file is displayed.

Status bar:

Located at the bottom of the View area, list all layout of the current DWG or DXF file. You can
select which layout of the drawing to be showed.
File Operation

Open file
Choose Menu “File/open” to choose the drawing to open, it supports AutoCAD .dwg .dxf .dwf
files, version R14 to the latest 2022, and also can open raster image formats
—.bmp .jpg .png .gif .tif

Save as
Like you can digitize or vectorize a drawing, you can also convert DWF files back to DWG and
DXF. DWGSee gives you the possibility to do such file conversion: DWG to DXF, DXF to DWG,
DWG to DWF, DXF to DWF, DWF to DWG and DWF to DXF. It sounds completed, but just simply
accomplished with the ‘save as’ feature. You can get an editable CAD drawing if the target
format is DWG or DXF.

STEP1.
Open a Drawing file, go to “File” > “Save as…” or click the “Save as” button on the navigation
bar.

STEP2.
In the open “Save as” window, give the new drawing file a name and from the drop down menu
of the “Save as type”, select DWG or DXF format and the CAD version. Choose where you want
to keep the new drawing file and click “OK”.

Lock drawing with password

Menu: File--Encrypt drawing…

Enter the password and Click OK.

Save layout as separated drawing

Menu: File--save current layout to a file

Step1, Switch to the layout you need to save

Step2, Click "File--save current layout to a file"

Step3, Edit the file name and choose the output folder to save.
Smart copy objects to new drawing

This feature can allow you smart copy the selected objects to new drawing.

STEP1.

Go to Menu “File” and find the smart copy option. (Open the drawing and move to model space
at first)

STEP2.

Choose the selected layer to copy

Choose the selected linetype to copy
Choose the selected color entities to copy

Choose the selected drawing entities to copy

STEP3.

Save the copied drawing to another new drawing.

Note: Please just use smart copy function in the model space.

Export to pdf
If others share some AutoCAD designs, you had better to change your AutoCAD drawing files to
PDF documents which is more accessible. DWGSeePro offers the “Export to PDF” function while
you can add markups before conversion and merge several drawings into the final PDF.

STEP1.
Option1. Find the “Export to PDF” button on the toolbar.
Option2. Go to “File” > “Export” > Choose “Convert to PDF”.

STEP2.
In the open window,
Click “Browse” if you need to change the destination folder.
Choose if you need to “Create individual PDF” or “Merge into a single PDF”.
If you need the markup to be preserved in the output, tick the “Exporting with markup”
checkbox.
STEP3.
Go to next step and set the page size, output color and image resolution.

STEP4.
Click “Next” and wait for the conversion. You may see that all the linked Xref’s are preserved in
the output. You can view or email the PDF directly to others.
Export to image

STEP1.
Option1. Find the “Export to Image” button on the toolbar.

Option2. Go to “File” > “Export” > Choose “Convert to JPG, BMP…”

STEP2.
In the open window, choose an output format (BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF) and go with the other
options.

Note: If you need the markup to be preserved in the output, tick the “Exporting with markup”
checkbox.
Formats File Size Image Quality
BMP Big High quality with lossless data compression.
JPEG Small Variable by adjusting compression level. Perfect for most images.
GIF Small Useful for animation and image maps.
PNG Normal Good and useful for line art, text-heavy images.
TIFF Normal High, no image loss. Good choice for achieving important images.

STEP3.
Click “Next” and wait for the conversion. You can view or email the PDF directly to others.
When you zoom in on a raster image you see grainier and grainier set of dots. When you zoom
in on a vector image you continue to see a smooth text, shape or whatever. The advantages of
vector images are low-size and high-resolution. You no longer have to produce a huge image
size just to maintain a reasonable degree of resolution.

Etransmit
Package current drawing and dependent files with zip file, and then share to others.

Menu: File/eTransmit
Print single drawing

Method 1

Menu: File/Print

Method 2

Click “Print” button on the toolbar

Print Scale setting

Print area: Current view, extent, selects the windows to print.

How to print drawing with scale 1:1?

Line width setting

You may change the line width/color to print, and you also can load .ctb file. If the line weight
shows light in the print result, you may set the zero-width lines to larger.

Print Preview

Batch print

You can take advantages of DWGSee batch printing to finish this task in few minutes, simply
browse and select all files to be printed, and then choose to print all layouts, with or without
model space, then press print button to send all of them to printer.
STEP1.
Go to “File” > “Batch Print”.

If you are in the DWGSee “Browser Mode”:

Option1. Go to “File” > “Batch Print”

Option2. Hold “Ctrl” and click the drawings that you need one by one in current folder, when
finished, right click on any of the highlighted file and select “Batch Print”
STEP2.
Press “Add” and choose a bunch of files to the print list, you may select bulk layouts to be
printed.

Note: You may also use the “Layout Select” button to choose “Paper Space”, “Model Space” or
“All Layouts” in one go.
Note: You may still set the number of copies, print in black and white, etc. in the other two tabs
“Print Scale” and “Line Width”.

STEP3.
If it is the first time you use the DWGSee print function, please click “Print Setup” to set the
printer properties, or just press the “Print” button and wait for your papers.

Markup file manager

Open/Save/Close markup

In DWGSee, measure and markup tools are stored in the markup menu category. So that either
it is a measurement or markup on screen, they will all be stored in a same *.MRK file once you
clicked the “Save Markup” button.

To open an existing markup, please go to “File” > “Markup”>“Open Markup …”

To close an open markup, please go to “File” > “Markup”>“Close Markup…”

To save the current markup, please go to “File” > “Markup”>“Save Markup…”

View
Menu lists for View

At the bottom of the View area you can select a layout of the drawing to be viewed.

Pan
As a view is being panned, the cursor changes to indicate when you have reached the virtual
extents of the drawing.

• Menu View/Pan
 • Pan Button

• Right Click and then choose “Pan”

Zoom

Zoom windows

Zoom to display an area specified by a rectangular window.

With the cursor, you can define an area of the model to fill the entire window.

Zoom in/out

Zoom interactively to change the magnification of the view.

The cursor changes to a magnifying glass with plus (+) and minus (-) signs. See Zoom Shortcut
Menu for a description of the options that are available while zooming in real time.

Zoom All

Zoom to display all visible objects and visual aids.

3D view
3D Orbit

Move around a target. The target of the view stays stationary while the camera location, or
point of view, moves. The target point displays temporarily as a small, dark sphere. The method
used for locating the target point is determined by the ORBITAUTOTARGET system variable.

Full screen mode

Regen
Regenerate the drawing from within the current viewport.

REGEN regenerates the drawing with the following effects:

• Recompute the locations and visibility for all objects in the current viewport
• Reindex the drawing database for optimum display and object selection performance
• Reset the overall area available for real-time panning and zooming in the current
viewport

Undo
The simplest method of backtracking is to use the UNDO or Ctrl+Z commands to undo a single
action.

Redo
You can reverse the effect of UNDO command by using REDO (Ctrl+Y) immediately after using
UNDO.

Cancel a Command
You can cancel a command without completing it by pressing Esc.

B/W Mode
Change to black/white to display the drawing

Background color setting

Choose the background color, such as white, black, gray

Rotate entire drawing

Previous/Next drawing
Quickly open drawings in the same folder

Hide toolbar/status bar/layout tabs

Show sheetset bar

If you open the sheetset drawing, the sheetset bar will be displayed automatically, and you also
can hide it with enter “S”.

You can manage multiple drawings as sheet sets with the Sheet Set Manager:

• A sheet is a selected layout from a drawing file. You can import a layout from any
drawing into a sheet set as a numbered sheet.
• A sheet set is an organized and named collection of sheets from several drawing files.
You can manage, transmit, publish, and archive sheet sets as a unit.
Right click view menu
In the view mode, just right click the window, you may see following quick view tools.
Markup

We can email a drawing file to somebody maybe across country even. So that they could see the
plans, they could markup and send back to us.
DWGSee creates overlays for markups, so that all the markups made by others will not infect
the original drawing file. Markup overlays are saved in a separate *.MRK file. To save the
bandwidth or email attachment size, the reviewer can just send back the *.MRK file and you can
easily load it on your drawing in DWGSee to see the remarks.
For this demonstration, you will have a glance of how DWGSee markup collaborates and
coordinates with the drawings.

Select a measure or drawing markup tool

Measure markups
The Measure tool measures the distance between two points, takes the angle between two
non-parallel lines or calculates the radius of a circle, an arc, a curve or an arch. Instead of
showing the results on information panel, to add the measurements as markups on the drawing,
you will need to choose the following tools on the navigation bar.

Callout markups
To attract more attentions, you can add callout markups. The Callout tool enables you to create
a call-out shape that points to a particular location in the drawing. You can enter text in the call-
out box to explain the call-out.
Text box markup

The Text Box tool is similar to the Callout tool, except it is only a text box that can be placed at
any location on the drawing. You can enter text in the text box.

Free-form drawing markups

You also have the option to use free-form drawing markup tools that are meant to simulate
actually drawing on paper. The drawing markups are divided into three different types: Free
Redline markup, Polyline markup and Rectangle markup.
Draw
Menu Draw list

Lines

Line
The line object is the most basic and common object in drawings of any discipline.

Precision in Specifying Point Locations

• Use object snap , to snap to locations on objects

• Use Orthogonal locking, Ortho Mode (F8), to constrain cursor movement to the
horizontal and vertical directions
• Use angle overrides to lock the cursor to a specified angle

How to draw a line with the specific angle and length?

1. Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Line”.

2. Specify the first point.
 3. Do one of the following to specify the angle: Enter the left angle bracket (<) and the
angle, for example <30, and move the cursor to indicate the direction.
4. Do one of the following to specify the length: Enter the length of the line, for example
25.

Tangent line

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Tangent line”

• Select circle/arc entity.
• Specify second point.

Center line/center mark

Draw center line of circle/arc

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Center line”

• Select circle/arc entity.
• Input length of extend circle segment value.

Draw center mark

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Circle Center Mark”

• Select circle/arc entity.
• Input length of center segment value.

Polyline
A polyline is a connected sequence of line segments created as a single object. You can create
straight line segments, arc segments, or a combination of the two.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “polyline”

• Specify first point
• Specify second point ,(A/arc)/(L/line), input A to draw arc, input L to draw line

Curved Objects

Circle
To create circles, you can specify various combinations of center, radius, points on the
circumference, and points on other objects. You can create circles in several ways. The default
method is to specify the center and the radius.
Draw a circle by center and radius

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “circle”

• Specify the center point.
• Enter a radius value, or specify a point.

Draw a circle with two points

Create a circle based on two endpoints of the diameter.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “circle two points”

• Specify the first point on diameter.
• Enter a value, or specify a second end of diameter.

Draw a circle with three points

Create a circle based on three points on the circumference.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “circle three points”

 • Specify the first point on circle.
• Specify the second point on circle.
• Specify the third point on circle.

Draw a circle tangent to two objects

Create a circle with a specified radius and tangent to two objects. The program draws the circle
of the specified radius whose tangent points are closest to the selected points.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “circle tangent-tangent-radius”

• Input specify radius value
• Select the first entity
• Select the second entity
• Input "I" or "C" to select inscribed circle or Circumscribed circle

Sometimes more than one circle matches the specified criteria. The program draws the circle of
the specified radius whose tangent points are closest to the selected points.

Draw a circle tangent to three objects

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “circle tangent-tangent-tangent”

• Select the three entities
 • Input "I" or "C" to select inscribed circle or Circumscribed circle

Sometimes more than one circle matches the specified criteria. The program draws the circle of
the specified radius whose tangent points are closest to the selected points.

Arc
To create an arc, you can specify combinations of center, endpoint, start point, radius, and
angle.

Draw an arc with three points

Draw an arc using three specified points on the arc's circumference.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Arc Three-Point”

• Specify arc first point.
• Specify arc second point.
• Specify arc third point.

Draw an arc by Center, Specifying Start, Angle

You can create an arc using a start point, center, and an included angle.
 • Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Arc Center-StartPoint-Angle”
• Specify arc center point.
• Specify arc start point.
• Specify arc angle, or input value

Draw an arc by specifying Start, End, Radius

You can create an arc using a start point, endpoint, and a radius.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Arc StartPT-EndPT-Radius”

• Specify arc start point.
• Specify arc end point.
• Input value of arc radius

Ellipse
When you draw an ellipse, its shape is determined by two axes that define its length and width:
the major (longer) axis and the minor (shorter) axis.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Ellipse”

• Specify ellipse center point.
 • Specify major radius.
• Specify second radius.(minor radius)

Rectangle
Creates a rectangular polyline from the specified the rectangle parameters.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Rectangle”

• Specify rectangle first point.
• Specify rectangle second point

Polygon
You specify the number of sides of the polygon and whether it is inscribed or circumscribed.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Polygon”

• Specify polygon base point.
• Input "C" or "I" to choose inside the circle or tangent to the circle.
• Specify edge count value, such as 3.
• Specify second point.

Text
Single line text

You can use single-line text to create one or more lines of text, where each text line is an
independent object that you can move, format, or otherwise modify.
 • Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Text”
• Specify text point
• Specify text height, or input value
• Input text angle, default is 0.0
• Input text width factor.
• Enter the text

Mtext

You can create several paragraphs of text as a single multiline text (mtext) object.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “add mtext”

• Pick point for mtext position.
• Specify text height, or input value
• Input text angle, default is 0.0
• Choose text style.
• Enter the text content, You may specify the text to use the existing text settings

How to modify the existed text?

Method 1

• Double click the text object

• Modify the text value in the right property bar.

Method 2

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Edit Text”

• Double click the text object.
• Modify the value in the text editor.
Hatch
Fill an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pattern, solid fill, or gradient fill.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Hatch”

• Specify a point in an area that is enclosed by objects.
• Choose hatch pattern to use
• Check the scale
• Check the angle
• Click "OK" to insert

How to change hatch?

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Hatch”

• Click the hatch object.
• Choose hatch pattern
• Check the scale
• Check the angle
• Click "OK" to modify
Insert File/Block
Inserts a block or drawing into the current drawing. A good practice is to insert a block from a
block library. DWGSee can choose the existed block to the drawing, and it also can insert one
drawing to current drawing.

• Click Menu “Draw”, and then choose “Insert”

• Choose the source of insert drawing/block
• Specify insert base point
• Specify insert scale
• Specify insert angle
• Click "OK" to insert
Editor
Menu Editor List

Right click menu for editor

Select the object, and then right click, you see following menu.
Modify objects

Move
Move objects a specified distance in a specified direction.

You can move objects at a specified distance and direction from the originals. Use coordinates,
grid snap, object snaps, and other tools to move objects with precision.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Move”

• Select objects to move
• Specify base point
• Specify second point

How to move object a specified distance and a specified direction?

• Draw a line as specified distance and direction at first.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Move”
• Select objects to move
• Specify base point on the line
• Specify second point on the line
Copy
Copy objects a specified distance in a specified direction.

You can copy objects at a specified distance and direction from the originals. Use coordinates,
grid snap, object snaps, and other tools to move objects with precision.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Copy”

• Select objects to copy
• Specify base point
• Specify second point

How to copy object a specified distance and a specified direction?

• Draw a line as specified distance and direction at first.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Copy”
• Select objects to copy
• Specify base point on the line
• Specify second point on the line

Rotate
You can rotate objects in your drawing around a specified base point.

To determine the angle of rotation, you can enter an angle value, drag using the cursor, or
specify a reference angle to align to an absolute angle.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Rotate”

• Select objects to rotate
 • Specify base point
• Specify second point, or input angle to rotate

Mirror
You can flip objects about a specified axis to create a symmetrical mirror image.

You flip objects about an axis called a mirror line to create a mirror image. To specify this
temporary mirror line, you enter two points. You can choose whether to erase or retain the
original objects.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Mirror”

• Select objects to Mirror
• Specify first point of mirror line
• Specify second point of mirror line
• Check if you need erase source objects? Enter Y or N

Scale
Scale an Object by a Scale Factor

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Scale”

• Select objects to scale
• Specify base point
• Specify second point, or enter the scale factor to specify a new scale

Scale Factor
 A scale factor greater than 1 enlarges the objects. A scale factor between 0 and 1 shrinks the
objects. You can also drag the cursor to make the object larger or smaller.

Stretch
Stretches objects crossed by a selection window or polygon.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Stretch”

• Select objects
Select the object using a crossing window selection.
The crossing window must include at least one vertex or endpoint.
• Specify the base point for the stretch, and then specify a second point, to determine the
distance and direction.

Select objects

Specify the portion of the object that you want to stretch.

Base Point

Specify the base point from which the offset for the stretch is calculated.

Second point

Specify a second point that defines the distance and direction of the stretch. The distance and
direction of this point from the base point defines how far the and in what direction the
selected portions of the object will be stretched.
Any objects with at least one vertex or endpoint included within the crossing window are
stretched. Any objects that are completely within the crossing window, or selected
individually, are moved without stretching.

Array

Create copies of selected objects to be arranged in a pattern called an array, you choose the
arrangement pattern. There are two types of arrays.
Rectangle array

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Array”

• Select “rectangle array”
• Specify the objects that you want to duplicate.

Circular array
 • Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Array”
• Select “Circular array”
• Specify the objects that you want to duplicate.

Match properties
Apply the properties of a selected object to other objects

The types of properties that can be applied include color, layer, linetype, linetype scale,
lineweight, plot style, transparency, and other specified properties.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Match Properties

• Select source object to match
• Select objects to copy/match properties

Erase
Remove objects from a drawing. You can erase selected objects from the drawing. This method
does not move objects to the Clipboard, where they can then be pasted to another location.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Erase”

• Select objects to remove

Explode
Break a compound object into its component objects. Explode a compound object when you
want to modify its components separately. Objects that can be exploded include blocks,
polylines, and regions, among others.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Explode”

• Select objects to be exploded. For most objects, exploding has no visible effect.

Trim
Trim objects to meet the edges of other objects.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Trim”

• Select the boundaries object
• Select the objects that you want to trim

Extend
Extend objects to meet the edges of other objects.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Trim”

• Select the border line to extend
• Select the extend line
Fillet
Round or fillet the edges of two 2D objects. A round or fillet can be created between two
objects of the same or different object types: 2D polylines, arcs, circles, ellipses, elliptical arcs,
lines, rays, splines, and xlines.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Fillet”

• Choose the fillet radius
• Select two lines to fillet.

Chamfer
A chamfer connects two objects with an angled line in 2D.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Chamfer”

• Choose the chamfer value
• Select the two lines to chamfer

Change General Object Properties

Object properties control the appearance and behavior of objects, and are used to organize a
drawing. Every object has general properties including its layer, color, linetype, linetype scale,
lineweight, transparency, and plot style. In addition, objects have properties that are specific to
their type. For example, the special properties of a circle include its radius and area. When you
specify the current properties in a drawing, all newly created objects use those settings
automatically. For example, if you set the current layer to Dimensions, the objects that you
create will be on the Dimensions layer.

You can set some properties of an object either by layer (ByLayer), or by specifying the property
explicitly, independent of its layer.

Use the Properties Palette

The Properties palette provides the most complete list of all property settings. If a single object
is selected, you can view and change the properties for that object.

Layer
To Change the layer of Selected Objects

• Select the objects whose layer you want to change.

• Right-click in the drawing area, and choose Properties.
• In the Properties palette, click layer, and then click the down arrow. From the drop-
down list, choose the layer that you want to assign to the objects.
• The layer that you choose overrides the default layer for the selected objects.

Color
To Change the Color of Selected Objects

• Select the objects whose color you want to change.

• Right-click in the drawing area, and choose Properties.
• In the Properties palette, click Color, and then click the down arrow. From the drop-
down list, choose the color that you want to assign to the objects.
• The color that you choose overrides the default layer color for the selected objects.

Linetype
To Change the line type of Selected Objects

• Select the objects whose line type you want to change.

 • Right-click in the drawing area, and choose Properties.
• In the Properties palette, click linetype, and then click the down arrow. From the drop-
down list, choose the line type that you want to assign to the objects.
• The linetype that you choose overrides the default linetype for the selected objects.

Lineweight
To Change the line weight of Selected Objects

• Select the objects whose line weight you want to change.

• Right-click in the drawing area, and choose Properties.
• In the Properties palette, click line weight, and then click the down arrow. From the
drop-down list, choose the line weight that you want to assign to the objects.
• The line weight that you choose overrides the default line weight for the selected
objects.

Mleader
Create a multileader object. A multileader object typically consists of an arrowhead, a horizontal
landing, a leader line or curve, and either a multiline text object or a block.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Mleader”

• Specify a location for the arrowhead of the multileader object.
• Specify a location for the landing line of the multileader object.
• Enter the label text.
• Click "OK" to add.

Block

Block attribute

Edit and save the block attribute in the drawing

Step1, Choose Editor/Edit block attribute, and then click the special block in the drawing
Step2, Edit the attribute

Step3, save the edited data

Click "save" button, the new attribute will be displayed in the drawing.

Please note, if you need save the changed attribute in the drawing, you should save the drawing
before closing.
Dimension
The basic types of dimensioning are aligned, linear, angular, radius, diameter, and arc length.

Aligned Dimension
Create a linear dimension that is aligned with the origin points of the extension lines.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Aligned”

• Specify the first point of dimension.
• Specify the second point of dimension.
• Specify dimension position.

Linear Dimension
Creates a linear dimension with a horizontal, vertical, or rotated dimension line

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Linear”

• Specify the first point of dimension.
• Specify the second point of dimension.
• Specify dimension position.
Angular Dimension
Angular dimensions measure the angle between two selected geometric objects or three points.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Angular”

• Specify the first point of dimension.
• Specify the second point of dimension.
• Specify dimension position.

Radius Dimension
Measures the radius of a selected circle or arc and displays the dimension text with a radius
symbol in front of it. You can use grips to reposition the resulting radius dimension easily.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Radius”

• Specify the arc/circle.
• Specify dimension position.

Diameter Dimension
Measures the diameter of a selected circle or arc, and displays the dimension text with a
diameter symbol in front of it. You can use grips to easily reposition the resulting diameter
dimension.
 • Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Diameter”
• Specify the arc/circle.
• Specify dimension position.

Arc Length Dimension

Arc length dimensions measure the distance along an arc or polyline arc segment.

• Click Menu “Editor”, and then choose “Dim arc length”

• Specify the arc/circle entity.
• Specify dimension position.

How to add new Dimension Style?

 • Click Menu “Options”, and then choose “Dim style..."
• Click “New” button, and then enter dim name
• Choose the line and arrow settings
• Choose the text settings
• Choose the unit settings
• Save the dim style

How to change Dimension Style of dim objects?

• Select the dim objects whose style you want to change.
• Right-click in the drawing area, and choose Properties.
• In the Properties palette, click dim style, and then click the down arrow. From the drop-
down list, choose the style that you want to assign to the objects.
• The style that you choose overrides the default style for the selected objects.
Tools
Menu Tools list

DWGCompare

If you’ve made minor changes to your drawing and saved as different copies, few days later, you
may have a hard time to recall what the changes you’ve made. AutoDWG compare helps you
compare 2 revisions of your drawings and list every change clearly. Also you may use this
feature for the collaboration and check out changes made by your team members.
STEP1.
Option1. Go to “Tools” > “DWG Compare…”

Option2. Press the “Find differences between versions” button on the tool bar.

If you are in the Browser mode, go to “File” > “DWG compare”.

STEP2.
Click “…” buttons to add your 2 versions of drawing files. You may use the examples in the
DWGSee installation folder (default location: C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoDWG\DWGSee Pro
2020).
Note: Click the “Setting” button to find more compare options.

STEP3.
Click “OK” to compare and highlight differences in two drawings.

Find text
Just like we need to search a word in any document, to search texts in a DWG, DXF or DWF
drawing is much easier with DWGSee. No matter it is in text, text node, title block, vertical or
angled texts with pointer, DWGSee will help you locate it and highlight it in the center of the
screen, and all found texts will be listed in the right side pane, you may select “cases sensitive”
“match whole word” to narrow finding results. Or search part of the word for wilder researches.

STEP1.
Option1. Go to the “Find” button on the navigation bar.
Option2. Go to “Tools” > “Find”.

Option3. Hold “Ctrl” and press “F” on your keyboard.

STEP2.
Type what text you want to find then click “OK”. The search results are limit to current space
(model or layout).

Example
In this example, I would like to see where Jane’s desk is in our new working place, so I enter
“Jane” in the textbox and finally located Jane.

Find drawings by keywords

It is an advanced feature which is available in the “Browser mode” so that you can search texts
in multiple drawings in one go. You may search in a folder, even within its subfolder. DWGSee
will traverse all the drawing files for the occurrences of the matched texts.

STEP1.
Hold “Ctrl” and press “B” to go to the Browser mode.

STEP2.
Run the command
Option1. Find the “Search text in drawings” button on the tool bar

Option2. Right click in the view, and find the “Search text in drawings” item
Option3. Right click on a drawing thumbnail and find the “Search text in drawings” item

STEP3.
Type the test, choose a destination folder and click “OK”.

STEP4.
Double click on a drawing thumbnail to view the drawing. Use arrow button on the toolbar to
switch drawings.
Note: You may want to search again in the drawing to locate the specific text in a drawing,
please see >> Search and find text in the drawing.

Example
I searched a keyword and it gives me 2 results. Double clicked one file and open the drawing.
Now use the arrow buttons “Next drawing” and “Previous drawings” to browse all the matched
drawings for reviews.
To precisely locate a keyword, hold “Ctrl” and press “F” to find the text location in the drawing.
Find by type
Find the text by entity type, such as find by dimension.

STEP1. Click “Tools/Find by type”

STEP2, choose the entity type settings.

STEP3, choose the entity type to find, and then click continue button

For example, if you need find by dimension, you may choose as following.
STEP4, click the data to find the entity in the drawing.

Count

DWGSee “Counting Items” feature allows you to mark the entities or blocks by checks, and
counting number of the checks you’ve made. When symbols or attributed blocks uses in your
drawing, this program can automatically search and check every of them, just in one click.
The blocks do not have to have attribute definitions. Nested blocks and xref's blocks are all
supported.

STEP1.
Please Open the drawing and find the “Count Items” on the toolbar.

STEP2.
Find the “New” button to define a new group of entities.
Give the group a name and type it in the “Item Name” box, to count all the instances of a same
block in the drawing, make sure check the “Search and check all similar items”, then click “OK”.

STEP3.
Get back to the drawing and you will find that when the mouse hovers, the mouse arrow will
turn into a square or a gray mark sign.
When it sniffers a block entity, the mouse shape turns into a square, in this way, you may click
the mouse key and DWGSee will count out how many times the selected block are instanced in
the drawing. You may find the calculated quantity shown in the “Counter Manager”. A green
mark sign will then be added to each counted block on the screen.
Note: To better help getting an accurate result, it is suggested to use your mouse wheel to zoom
in before you tick on screen.

STEP4.
A gray mark sign allows you to select a single entity. If you want to add more entities to a same
group, just tick the blocks individually as you want and DWGSee will continue counting the
number.
Measure
Mearure object

step1, Menu: Tools/Measure

Step2, specify the two points to measure.

Measure result as following.

Measure Polyline

• Menu tools/ measure polyline

• Specify the polyline to measure
• Right click the finish the measure.
• Check the result and then continue

Sum lines length

• Click menu tools/ sum lines length
• Specify the lines to sum
• Right click then confirm.
Calculate Area
• Click menu tools/Calculate Area, or click the button of area,
• Specify the area to calculate
• Check if you need markup the result in the drawing

Calculate selected entity area

• Click menu Tools/Calulate selected entity area
• Specify the entity to calculate area
• Check if you need markup the result in the drawing

You can calculate the enclosed area and perimeter or circumference of circles, ellipses,
polylines, polygons and regions. The information displayed depends on the type of object
selected:

• Circles. Displays area and circumference information.

• Ellipses, closed polylines, polygons, planar closed spline curves, and regions. Displays
area and perimeter information.
• Open objects such as open spline curves and open polylines. Displays the area and
length; the area is calculated as though a straight segment connects the start and end.

Area summation
• Use Calculate Area to mark several areas at first
• click menu tools/area summation
• Check the result.
• Export the result or insert the result table to current drawing.
 Insert table result

Copy objects

Copy the vector drawing into a Word document

Raster images make for large file sizes or fuzzy printouts so that to inset a vector image into a
word document is a good choice. DWGSee offers such sweet function for you. Creating
WMF/EMF figures for Microsoft Office suites, you can just copy and paste any part of your DWG,
DXF or DWF drawing to a Word document and make it scalable still.

STEP1.
You have 3 options to call the copy function from DWGSee:
Option1. Go to “Tools” and find the copy options.

Option2. Right-click on the drawing and find the copy options.

Option3. Hold “Ctrl” and press “C” to copy the current view or hold “Ctrl” and press “R” to copy
a certain part of the drawing in clipboard.

STEP2.
Go to your MS document, and paste the vector image there.
Extract table

For real table object, you can just double click the table to extract.

• Step1, Double click the table object in the drawing.

• Step2, Check and edit the value in the table.
• Step3, Save to csv file.

For formatted table, our advanced feature also can extract, any kind of table templates that is
preliminary defined in your company can be customized and batch extracted in .xls files,
import to database .etc.

Please note, this is the advanced feature, if you need that, please kindly contact us for more
details: [email protected]
Other Tools

Magnifier

Hotkey: M

Menu: Tools--Magnifier

Tips

1, Change the magnification. (Right click the windows)

2, Change the size of the magnifying glass.

3, you can also use Magnifier in the browser mode. (Right click the preview and then choose
"show/hide Magnifier")
Hawk-eye

Menu: Tools-Hawk-eye

Purge
Menu: Tools-purge

Remove unused items, such as block definitions and layers, from the drawing.

Unused named objects can be removed from the current drawing. These include block
definitions, dimension styles, groups, layers, linetypes, and text styles. Zero-length geometry
and empty text objects can also be removed.

• Click menu tools/Purge

• Check the objects to purge
• Check if you need verify each name to be purged, enter Y or N.
• Check the purge result as following.
Options
All options menu list

Xref Manager
If you open a drawing file in DWGSee and it pops similar message as shown below, then you will
need to manually load the Xrefs in DWGSee as without the Xref’s the drawing on screen is not
complete.

STEP1.
Go to “Options” > “Xref Manager”, you will find all the referenced files in the “Xref Manager”
and the status is “Not Found”

STEP2.
Option1. Put the drawing together with all the external references drawings.
Option2. Choose every reference file in the list and click “Browse” to re-locate the reference file.

When the Xref file is selected, click “Save Path” to update the status.
Option3. Go to “Options” > “Font/Xref path…”

Click “Add” and choose th Xref’s location, then click “OK” to apply.

STEP3.
You may need to close the drawing and open it in DWGSee again. This time no error message
pups when opening and the Xref’s are all loaded.
Text style setting
Menu: Options/Text Style

You may use this setting to change the text style that you are using, and you also change the
default text style.

Font Name

List the font family name for all registered TrueType fonts and all compiled shape (SHX) fonts in
the Fonts folder.

Text Height

Sets the text height based on the value you enter. TrueType fonts might be displayed at a
smaller height than SHX fonts with the same height setting.

Dimension style setting

A dimension style is a named collection of dimension settings that controls the appearance of
dimensions, such as arrowhead style, text location, and lateral tolerances.

You create dimension styles to specify the format of dimensions quickly, and to ensure that
dimensions conform to industry or project standards.

• When you create a dimension, it uses the settings of the current dimension style.
• If you change a setting in a dimension style, all dimensions in the drawing that use the
style update automatically.
• You can override a dimension style with dimension settings that deviate from the
current dimension style.
 • All dimension styles in your drawing are listed in the Dimension Style drop-down

To Create a Dimension Style

• In the Dimension Style Manager, click New.

• In the Create New Dimension Style dialog box, enter a name for the new dimension
style, and click OK.
• In the New Dimension Style dialog box, click each tab, and make any changes for the
new dimension style.
• Click save and then Close to exit the Dimension Style Manager.
Markup dimension settings
Please note, this setting is for markup, not for add dimension objects on drawing.

The default scale of the drawing is 1:1, please be aware the drawing has different scales and
drawing units settings, this scale information could be found from the title block of the drawing,
please set up the drawing unit to true length scales accordingly, the DWGSee application is
unable to pick up this scale information automatically.
For the "Drawing Unit" field of the Dimension properties, the units settings here is for the
display of the numbers, does not calculate and change the values, since the software is unable
to know the true length of the measurement. In short, the software "knows" the measurement
in Drawing Unit only, and if you enter the scale of "Drawing unit" to "True Length", as well as the
true "Drawing Unit", then the software is able to show up the measurement with correct true
length number with true unit.
The value enter for the scale change should be: dimension marked divided by the measured
drawing unit For example, this drawing converted with default setting, scale 1, the created
length measured as 371.000, however the actual value marked as 27.74, then the value to enter
to the converter scale value should be 27.74/371.000=0.074771

Snap setting
Object snaps provide a way to specify precise locations on objects whenever you are prompted
for a point within a command.

For example, you can use object snaps to create a line from the center of a circle to the
midpoint of another line.

Use Running Object Snaps

If you need to use one or more object snaps repeatedly, you can turn on running object snaps,
which persist through all subsequent commands. For example, you might set Endpoint,
Midpoint, and Center as running object snaps.
Ortho Mode

You can restrict cursor movement to horizontal and vertical directions for convenience and
precision when creating and modifying objects.

You can turn Ortho on and off at any time during drawing and editing. Ortho is ignored when
you enter coordinates or specify an object snap.

Press F8 to Turn On or Turn Off Orthogonal Locking

Font path
You can set shx font files search path as following.

Layer setting
Add new layer

• Open layer manager

• Click "new layer" button
 • Rename layer name and then add new objects.

How to add new line type?

• Open layer manager

• Click "line type" button
• Open linetype file to load, such as “acad.lin”
• Press “ctrl+click” to select the linetypes to load
Other options

Open file with zoom extents

Show hyperlink

Show/Hide line width

Full screen crosshairs

Bigger toolbar icons

Hotkeys

A Zoom All

F Full Screen

M Maginfier

P or R Pan

S Sheetset Pane

W Zoom window

Page Up Previous drawing

Page Down Next drawing

+ Zoom In

- Zoom out

F1 Help file

F5 Regen

F8 Ortho Mode

Ctrl + B Change to Browser Mode

Ctrl +C Copy current view

Ctrl + F Find text

Ctrl + L Open layer manager

Ctrl + O Open drawing file

Ctrl + P Print drawing

Ctrl + R Copy by window

Ctrl + Y Redo

Ctrl + Z Undo
More Tips

Manage the Size of Drawing Files

In some circumstances, the size of drawing files can become larger than expected. The PURGE
will fix most of these problems. Additional steps you can take include the following:

• Use WBLOCK , selecting all objects, and save them as a new drawing file
• Save the drawing in DXF format (ASCII option) for further investigation using a text
editor (advanced)

To Save Part of a Drawing as a New File

Method 1

Create new drawings from objects within the current drawing.

Use the WBlock command to create a new drawing from a set of objects in the current drawing,
or create a reusable block of the entire drawing.

Method 2

Smart copy the objects and then save as new dwg.

Use smart copy feature to copy the objects, and then save as drawing.

Browser Mode
DWGSee browser is a drawing file manager for AutoCAD drawings such as DWG, DXF and DWF.
You can quickly view, search, markup, print, compare and share drawing designs, with no
advanced CAD expertise required.

Go to Browser

Option1. Go to “File” > “Browser”.

Option2. Press “Ctrl” and press “B” on your keyboard.

Option3. Find the “Browser” button on the toolbar.

Basic features

Browse

DWGSee allows browsing the local directory hierarchy – you may select folders in the file
browser window and it will list all the drawing files in the right viewer.
Manage

To manage the files in the view, you may right click on any drawing thumbnail or anywhere in
the viewer to check the available operations.
It allows browsing in different views, which differ in their usage of icons.
Files can also be viewed, copied, moved, deleted, renamed or send as email attachment.
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2) After finishing the installation, the AutoDWG license server icon will appear in the system
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6) Click OK.
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