TCL-Coded CAD Commands

TCL-Coded CAD Commands

In TwinCAD, you can virtually implement as many new features as you desire, through the use of a C-like programming language called TCL (TwinCAD Command Language). TwinCAD as a solution-based CAD engine, has demonstrated its unparalleled flexibility and adaptability in providing a TCL-Coded Command Set that grows everyday with user's requirement.

Note for running TCL commands:
After downloading the zip file for a selected command, extract the TCA file to \commands subdirectory for direct access of the command from the command line prompt, or extract the TCL file (the source program) to \tcl subdirectory for explicit RUN of the command.

TCL-Coded CAD Commands
ALIGN	AREA	BISECT	CDVIEW	CENTROID	CHDIM	CHINSERT	CHPROP
CHTEXT	CMASK	CONFIG	DDFRAME	DDHATCH	DDINSERT	DDNEW	DDSTYLE
DDTEXT	FILES	FLIP	FNCURVE	HATCHEDI	LOADOPT	LRDIM	LTMASK
PASTEXT	PLOTOPT	SAVEOPT	TOLERANC	UNDUP	VIEWOPT	XPDL

ALIGN	Align selected objects to a specified position and orientation through translating and rotating. (back to index)
AREA	Calculate accumulated area of closed polylines, ellipses and circles. (back to index)

BISECT

Draw bisectors for angles or line segments. (back to index)

CDVIEW	Create a clipped and magnified detail view of the drawing. (back to index)
CENTROID	Calculate accumulated area and geometric centroid coordinates of close polylines, ellipses and circles. (back to index)
CHDIM	Modify an existing dimension by its style, layout, and text annotation in a dynamic dragging fashion. (back to index)
CHINSERT	Modify a selected block instance by its insertion parameters. (back to index)
CHPROP	Dialog-based modification of entity properties. (back to index)
CHTEXT	Modify text content, text style and text attributes for a selected single text or group of texts. (back to index)
CMASK	Setup color mask for object selection. (back to index)
CONFIG	Dialog-based system setup and configuration. (back to index)

DDFRAME	Create drawing frame in various paper sizes and drawing scales with prescribed drawing standard and custom title box. (back to index)
DDHATCH	Associate hatch creation and modification. (back to index)
DDINSERT	Dialog-based block instance insertion. (back to index)
DDNEW	Create new drawings. (back to index)
DDSTYLE	Setup or modify current text styles and text insertion attributes with preview feature. (back to index)
DDTEXT	Dialog-based text insertion with alignment control and preview feature. (back to index)

FILES	General file management. (back to index)
FLIP	Rotate text/dimension text in 180^o. (back to index)
FNCURVE	Draw 2-D parametric function curves. (back to index)

HATCHEDI

Change associate hatch patterns. (back to index)

LOADOPT	Setup drawing load-related parameters. (back to index)
LRDIM	Create dimension for an arc with large radius setting. (back to index)
LTMASK	Setup linetype mask for object selections. (back to index)

PASTEXT	Paste text into drawing from Windows clipboard. (back to index)
PLOTOPT	Setup plot/print-related parameters. (back to index)

SAVEOPT

Setup drawing save-related parameters. (back to index)

TOLERANC

Create geometric tolerance. (back to index)

UNDUP

Check and remove duplicated entities. (back to index)

VIEWOPT

Setup drawing view-related parameters. (back to index)

XPDL

Replace dimension extension lines with true line entities. (back to index)

Other Solution-based TCL Routines (for TwinCAD Pro only)

ADDPAT.TCL Create custom-designed hatch patterns in .PAT file format.

GBRIN.TCL A Gerber file processor with optional aperture table conversion.

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