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Drawing > Drawing > Groups

Commandline: formatgroups

Explanation

New to WireCAD 8 is the ability to create groups of entities in order to better organize your drawings. Groups can be named and described as well as disabled and edited later.

To create a Group select some entities and right-click then click Group

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Dialog Options

Item

Description

Ignore Groups

Disable grouping

Name

The default Group name will be a GUID. You can rename it if you like.

Description


Selectable

Is the group selectable as a group. If selectable = true then when one object in the group is selected all objects are selected.

Item Count


Edit Entities

Add or remove entities to the group.

Apply Properties

Send the value of the Group Properties fields to the group.

Delete

Deleting the Group does not delete the entities.

Group Properties


New

New from the Group Properties.