Creating entities

In a drawing, you can create various entity types. Drawing entities can be very simple, such as lines, circles, arcs, points, and rays, or complex, such as polylines, splines, and planes. Apart from 2D entities, you can also create 3D surface entities or 3D solids in BricsCAD®.

Note: New entities are created on the current layer, using the current entity creation settings.

You can define entity creation settings in the General section of the Properties panel.

By default, all entity creation settings are set ByLayer. This means that the corresponding setting of the current layer is used.

You can set layer properties in the Layers tab in the Drawing Explorer dialog box.

To further complete your drawing, BricsCAD® provides a series of tools to add text, hatching and dimensions.

General procedure to create new entities

New entities are created using the current entity creation settings on the current layer in the XY- plane of the current coordinate system, by default this is the World Coordinate System (WCS).

  1. (Optional) Set the current layer.
  2. (Optional) Adjust the entity creation properties in the General section on the Properties panel.
  3. Launch the command.
  4. Execute the command according to the command prompts.