topic Re: direction of linetypes in Documentation

direction of linetypes

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 14:40:05 GMT

Does anyone know the way to change the direction of a linetype? For example, I have a polyline showing a hydronic piping schematic, and I drew it with the "arrow" linetype. It places the arrowheads along its length, pointing in the direction I drew the line. If I want to show it going the other way, i can redraw the line going the other direction.

However, I drew a rather complex layout for part of it, and have decided to change the flow direction. I'd rather not redraw the entire polyline. Is there a setting that will simply tell the line to reverse direction? This functionality would also be handy for things like the cold water line, so the CW is legible for lines that are drawn right to left.

thanks, any insight would be appreciated.

Re: direction of linetypes

Steve Jepson — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:33:25 GMT

No. You can't edit the line to read one way or the other. All you can do is draw it from the other end if you want to change how it reads.

When you import drawings from another program, do the lines all come in as being drawn from left to right and top to bottom, or does ArchiCAD import the lines in the same way they were origianly drawn in the other program?

Re: direction of linetypes

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:46:40 GMT

What you can do is create a new line that's mirror of the line you are using, select the lines you want to "flow" the other way, and then change those line's line-type to the mirrored line. I would think this would be faster than redrawing the lines the other way.