http://www.zwsoft.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1124 <img src="smileys/smiley20.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Thumbs%20Up" /> Thank you, Rab. Many of your tips are useful even to experienced users! Regarding the <i>pellipse </i>variable there's a note: if you're thinking of offsetting (parallel) the ellipse, it's better if it is drawn as polyline (<i>pellipse = on).</i> Else it offsets as a spline! Of course, you can use the <i>spline2line </i>tool in the<i> express</i> <i>menu</i> - but that creates a 1001 tiny lines! OTOH drawing a true ellipse means you can afterwards change the major and minor axis diameters to your liking. zw_admin 2008-05-08 23:42:54 http://www.zwsoft.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1124&pid=10766 hello, maker. Thank you for your remark. Later, if I collect some new techniques, I will share here as well. Hopefully you can post some new topics to activate our forum. <img src="http://www.zwcad.org/Forum/smileys/smiley17.gif" height="17" width="17" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Tongue" /> zw_admin 2008-05-11 23:08:33 http://www.zwsoft.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1124&pid=10752 <FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial>Following is s<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">ome small techniques of using ZWCAD, and it's the fifth item. Hopefully everyone can share their tips to make ZWCAD more easily to use<img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" height="17" width="18" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Clap" /><img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" height="17" width="18" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Clap" /><img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" height="17" width="18" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Clap" /><img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" height="17" width="17" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Tongue" /><img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" height="17" width="17" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Smile" /> <P =Msonormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: break-all; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">21, Some CAD learners misunderstand that the blocks can zw_admin 2008-05-08 02:49:44