Insert CAD drawing

The possibility of inserting as background a CAD drawing is offered from the Menu (File > Import DWG...) or through the corresponding toolbar button . Once the drawing is inserted the user is asked to specify the drawing’s units and to choose whether to move the DWG/DXF file to (0,0), i.e. to the origin of the coordinates system. Selecting this checkbox moves the bottom-left edge of the drawing to the (0,0) coordinates, irrespective of its initial CAD coordinates.

Note that the axes origin can be further moved to a different point that might be more suitable after loading the CAD file with the Move Axes Center () toolbar button, also accessible from the Menu (View > Move Axes Center).

The option of moving the imported CAD file is also available through the Move DWG () toolbar button or from the main menu (View > Move DWG)

Finally, from the Menu (View > Show/Hide DWG) or through the  toolbar button the option whether the CAD drawing will be visible or not is also defined.