Symbol catalog
Reuse your own blocks by name, and let Cizgen learn what repeating symbols mean so it recognizes them next time.
Cizgen has two features for working with the symbols and blocks you use over and over: your personal catalog, and pattern groups it learns from a drawing.
Your symbol catalog
Your catalog is a personal library of blocks you use often. Cizgen can:
- List what's in your catalog (each entry with a name and description), and
- Place a block from it by name — defining it into the current drawing first if needed.
That means you can say:
Place the /north-arrow at the top-right corner.
and Cizgen pulls the block from your catalog and stages it for approval, instead of you drawing it from scratch.
Pattern groups and symbol memory
When a drawing repeats the same symbol many times, Cizgen can group the identical ones together, count them, and show you a representative example.
Once you tell Cizgen what a group means — a label like "radiator" or "outlet" — it does two things:
- Writes that label into the drawing, and
- Remembers the symbol, so it recognizes the same one automatically the next time it appears.
This is how Cizgen gets better at your drawings over time: the more symbols you name, the more it recognizes on its own — without you re-explaining them.
Related
- Drawing and editing — defining and placing blocks in general.
- Reading your drawing — how Cizgen detects repeating symbols.