– Update your printer driver from the printer manufacturer’s website. – System drivers provided with operating systems could be not fully compatible with your printer, so some options supported by your printer could be unavailable. If available, download and install an updated driver from the printer manufacturer’s website. – Check the plotter settings for drawing auto rotation […]
– Update your printer driver from the printer manufacturer’s website. – If available, download and install an updated driver from the printer manufacturer’s website. – If SilicaCAD doesn’t accept some settings available from your system driver, try setting them directly from the control panel.
The wheel of the Mouse rotation -> Zoom IN and Zoom Out pressed -> Pan in the active window double-click -> Zoom Extension in the Active window To use the CTRL key for the Zoom and Pan commands (SilicaCAD 2016 and newer versions), you need to enable Mouse Advanced Functions. These settings can be found in the menu Express -> […]
The “LTSCALE” variable must have been set to a different value. Check the value of the “LTSCALE” variable in the drawing of origin by typing on the command bar “LTSCALE” and pressing “ENTER” Move to the destination drawing and repeat the operation described above. If the value of the variable in the destination drawing is different, change it by […]
The reason could be that the drawing from which you are copying your entities has been closed. — Make sure the file from which you are copying your entities is still open. — If it is closed: open the source file, select the entities to be copied using the “Copy” or “Copy with base point” commands from […]
— Click on the button “LWT” in the status bar of SilicaCAD® to enable or disable the display of line weight. OR: — From the Tools menu, choose ” Drawing Settings” . — Under the “Display”, under the label “Change settings:” choose from: “lineweight.” — Select “display lineweights”. — Exit the form confirming with the button “Ok”
Where: The drawing is open, but some of its details are not present In this case, the file may be corrupted, so it requires recovery: — Start SilicaCAD® — From the File > Utility menu choose “Recover” — Select the damaged file and confirm — After the procedure it is necessary to save the drawing for the operation to take effect on […]
Where: 01. An error message is displayed and the drawing is not opened. 02. An error message is not displayed but the drawing won’t open. 03. The loading of a drawing started but after its completion or before it SilicaCAD® goes wrong. In all these cases, the file may be corrupted, so it requires recovery: — Start SilicaCAD® — From the File > Utility […]
This problem occurs when external references (Xref) are used and its re-occurrence can be erratic. It could happen even after opening and saving the drawing several times. It relates to all OLE objects that can be inserted (images, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents etc.). If you have this problem, you just need to delete the .vbi extension file with the […]
This is a problem that generally depends on the settings of the FlyOver snap (advanced snaps). Fly over snaps are a special mode of object Snaps which allow a user of SilicaCAD to display immediately the relevant points of objects (endpoint, centre, midpoint, intersection, etc.). For complex drawings (several drawn entities) or if a PC is not very fast, the use […]