Drawing and editing

This is Cizgen's core job: making and changing geometry from your instructions. Everything here is staged as a preview and applied only when you approve.

What it can draw

Cizgen can create the common AutoCAD object types, including:

• Lines and polylines (including curved segments)
• Circles, arcs, and ellipses
• Text
• Hatches
• Dimensions

Describe what you want and where, and Cizgen places it precisely, snapping to existing geometry when that's what you mean.

Editing and deleting

Cizgen can change and remove existing objects too — for example, moving text to another layer, or deleting objects you point it at. Deletions are staged like any other change and are reversible until you approve.

Working with blocks

• Define a block — Cizgen can create a block definition, either from geometry you already have or from new geometry it draws.
• Place blocks — it can insert blocks at the positions you specify, with rotation and scale, and place many at once.
• From your catalog — it can place blocks from your personal symbol library by name. See Symbol catalog.

How it draws carefully

Cizgen builds up a drawing deliberately — placing objects step by step and checking the result — rather than dumping everything at once. After it draws, it runs an automatic geometry check and fixes problems before asking you to approve. That's why a request may take several steps before the preview appears.

Related

• The approval gate — reviewing and applying changes.
• Verifying results — confirming a change did what you asked.
• Undo and recovery — taking a change back.