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north arrow within drawing title

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:13:50 GMT

is there a way to place the OBJECT tools "north arrow" in the designated drawing titles? currently i set up the "NCS drawing title 12" and then add the north arrow externally on my drawing sheet. am i missing something?

Re: north arrow within drawing title

Laszlo Nagy — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:44:31 GMT

Maybe you could script it in the 2D Script of the Title Object.
In the Script you would position your Origin to the place where you want the North arrow to appear, rotate it to the desired orientation, then call the North Arrow object as a macro, passing to it all needed parameters.

Re: north arrow within drawing title

David Maudlin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:45:25 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
... rotate it to the desired orientation, ...

david:

If you are scripting, then you should be able to use the GLOB_NORTH_DIR Global Variable to get the project's North setting from the Sun dialog box.

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David

Re: north arrow within drawing title

David Shorter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:52:32 GMT

The Australian Title type has the north point shown with it set to face the current project north.
It also allows the north point to be switched off when used for sections and elevations.
So it is view dependent. I find this is better than placing it on the sheet / layout.
It also has the scale and back-referencing incorporated

Re: north arrow within drawing title

TaniavH — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:11:34 GMT

Hi David, do you know if this magical title still exists in Archicad 25? I used it many years ago in Australia but here in the US there is no title that includes a north point....what are the chances you'd be willing to share it with me?