topic Re: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc in Modeling

!Restored: Bug: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc

kevin b — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:58:30 GMT

Is there any way to get a rotated rounded rectangle that follows the actual boundaries of the area you are detailing and has the marker head horizontal?

I can get the bottom one, which doesn't conform to the outline of the area being detailed (with a lot of work) and I cant get the marker head horizontal.

Or I get the top one which doesn't have rounded corners on the boundary line and there is no line connecting the marker head to the boundary.

Am I missing something? I could even live without the rounded corners if I could get the line connecting boundary to head.

Re: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:01:08 GMT

I'm still on AC11 -- so I can't answer for AC12 -- but, there is a parameter in the Marker panel under Marker Geometry called "Show Marker Line" which controls the line that you refer to.

Re: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc

kevin b — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:05:27 GMT

The show marker line option disappears when you select the Clip Polygon boundary

Re: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:11:25 GMT

Huh -- it didn't in AC11. Looks like a case of "breaking something whilst fixing something else."

Re: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc

Link — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:50:00 GMT

I think this actually broke between AC10 and AC11.

GS is aware of it.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc

Laura Yanoviak — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:33:37 GMT

Link wrote:
I think this actually broke between AC10 and AC11.

Really? Then I must have inadvertently fixed it when customizing the AC11 markers for our firm

Re: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc

Link — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:34:42 GMT

Excellent! Quick - send it to Graphisoft!

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc

kevin b — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:09:08 GMT

And more importantly how did you do it?

Re: Detail Markers, Boundaries, etc

Laura Yanoviak — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:38:04 GMT

OK -- From what I can tell from my notes, I found the AC11 Built-in Detail Marker problematic, so I reverted to the Detail Indicator_NCS from the AC10 Subset library and made the necessary adjustments so that it was compatible with the new AC11 features. I suppose GS could do the same...