Adding minimal space option to custom GDL 2D symbol and more.

[maurotrotta]

At my office we need some symbols that I can´t find anywhere online, so I decided to try create them myself as objects so also my colleagues could use them. I am not familiar with scripting, but my guess is that for what I want to do it shouldn´t be to difficult to do. I found an object of a wheelchair with the option of turning on and off the minimal space, represented in a dotted line around the wheelchair. I would like to do excalty the same with another symbol. I tried opening the wheelchair object and check the parameters as a reference but couldn´t figure out how to do it the same. I looked into tutorials but they are way to advance to what I want to do and require a lot of time that I don´t have. Is there any link to a specific tutorial that could help me? I don´t need to display this object in 3D, only 2D. It would be great to be able to add other options like displaying a text with the dimension of the minimal space for example.

Operating system used: Windows

[leonardotalarico]

hello maurotrotta, how are you?

Do you want to edit the objects and put that minimum space on them?

If so, you can enter the object's 2D script and use a basic geometric shape, such as a rectangle or circle, to appear in 2D.

However, it is necessary to know the basics to place these shapes within the Object:

1 - Shape Command

2 - Line Type

3 - Create a variable to turn the shape on and off (as in the object you mentioned)

4 - It is necessary to know the position of the object to place the shape centered.

If you want to do a test with a blank object it is better to understand the concepts.

[leonardotalarico]

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[leonardotalarico]