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Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:08:01 GMT

Hi, can anyone tell me how to create a symbol line but to manually set the anchor? see pictures. I'm thinking that this is possible because in ArchiCAD there is a type of line that looks like the anchor is defined, check out "Double" in line types. thanks

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:50:13 GMT

Hi,

You must save the line type with the anchor point/line on the origin

Best regards, Ede

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:54:48 GMT

Ede wrote:
Hi,

You must save the line type with the anchor point/line on the origin

Best regards, Ede

I already know that, I want the line where it is, (the black one) I want the text underlined not strike-through. I just want to move the position of the anchor of the line not the actual line.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:02:34 GMT

The anchor will always be in the centre so you need to have something on the opposite side of the line the same distance away as the upper limit of the text.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:31:34 GMT

s2art wrote:
The anchor will always be in the centre so you need to have something on the opposite side of the line the same distance away as the upper limit of the text.

Ok, and how was this made? As you can see (attachment) this is anchored correctly and its a simple double line.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

sinceV6 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:04:49 GMT

Like Ede said, you should create your symbol line using the project origin as the alignment base (i.e. create your elements according to the origin), as AC will use this to align your elements once pasted on the line types dialog box.

as noted:
http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/publishing/ac15_help_INT/Files/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=Appendix_Settings.12.032.html

almost at the bottom of the page.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:52:21 GMT

You need to use a Hotspot.
Place it to the opposite side of the intended center.
If the fartest point of the Gas text is let us say, 1 meter from the intended center line, then place a Hotspot 1 meter from the intended center line on the opposite side.
Then select all (including the Hotspot), Copy, then paste into the New Symbol Line Type pattern. Works for me.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Barry Kelly — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:16:39 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
If the fartest point of the Gas text is let us say....

I'm sure "fartest" was a typo but when used with "gas" in the same sentence it was rather funny.

Barry.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:37:13 GMT

That was farthest from me to make such a joke.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Andrew Swenson — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:53:37 GMT

Hi Laz

Using hotspots leaves a dot in the line type. I'm trying to make an amended version of the slope line type but can't replicate the line type without a spot due to the hotspot whereas the original doesn't have a spot and is offset as required.

Any thoughts on how this has been achieved?

thanks
Andrew

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

rocorona — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:17:53 GMT

Be sure to draw the line components so the bottom or the top of the bounding box is aligned with the global origin.
Otherwise the reference point of the line will be automatically put on the center of the height

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:26:35 GMT

Hi,

I tried it all and still have the same problem. When i do the hotspot to "balance" it, hotspot leaves a dot.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:38:18 GMT

OK! I dug deeper and tried one more desperate thing, which actually worked!

Previously I tried to make the new linetype in an independent worksheet. That did not work even if placed to origin (default nor user). You have to do it somewhere in "3D space", e.g. floorplan, elevation, section. When I did the same thing in a floorplan, it suddenly started working.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

KrisKey — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:53:15 GMT

Ahh! Thank you for this! I had the same issue with the worksheet. It worked!

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

kristoftihanyi — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:50:08 GMT

Thanks! This has been driving me crazy, since I was trying to make scaled linetypes for detail drawings (which of course are independent), and there were all kinds of unexplainable things going on with the lines.

Re: Move center line when creating symbol lines in ArchiCAD?

cuba — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:06:58 GMT

You can also place an "origin point" with shift-alt / option-shift to the line, then select and copy them and paste them into the symbol line.