topic Re: Typical Assembly Marker in Libraries & objects

Typical Assembly Marker

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:28:06 GMT

I'm trying to find a way to either recode an existing section/elevation marker or insert a new one to look like the image attached here. Nobody in the office knows how to code but if its a simple code change it would be worth learning. It does need to be a dynamic marker, though, and not just an object, that I can make already.

Very simple triangular shape with a dynamic label inside. The label only needs to refer to the reference ID.

Does anybody know of a marker like this out there already?

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:11:09 GMT

Try the "Built-In Section Marker" -- the location of the text defaults to outside the triangle, but you can move it inside the triangle using the Pet Palette.

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:17:35 GMT

and the result...

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:14:30 GMT

Thanks for the tip. I've tried this marker head, and I hate to be so remedial, but the pet palette that pops up when you click the id label isn't the one that allows micro movements of sub objects within the section marker. do I need to change a work preference or unlock or ungroup something?

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:21:17 GMT

Note the active button on the Pet Palette -- this is typically how you edit graphical hotspots in Objects.

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:24:29 GMT

okay, I've figured out how to move the id label, but now I realize that the line coming from the triangle to mark the cut point does not appear in the drawing, only in the view.

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:53:16 GMT

I would suggest you check your Pen Sets -- otherwise, I can't think of why it would appear in the View, but not the Drawing created from the View.

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:38:55 GMT

thanks everybody for your help with this.

as you can see in the images attached, in the view the line is there, in the drawing it is not. I don't want to just draw a line I want the marker symbol to do the work.

On the right is a shot of the view and on the left is a shot of that view on a sheet.

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:40:12 GMT

and by thanks "everybody" I guess I mean thanks very much to Laura.

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:47:14 GMT

Make sure your Section Lines are on and check the length (and Pen) under the Marker panel of the Section Settings dialog. I believe what you are seeing in your View is an On-Screen Display Option, so it is not visible in the Drawing.

Re: Typical Assembly Marker

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:32:15 GMT

Hooray Laura!!!!!! I got it!!!! thanks so much for your help that was maddening.

thanks again.