Custom Detail Marker Proportion Issues

[Anonymous]

Hello.

I am trying to create my own custom detail marker by saving it as a gdl object. Even though in the detail tool window the key looks proportionate to the way it is drawn when I place it on the drawing it resizes the proportions and squishes the key down. Any ideas? Changing the dimensions in the object doesn't seem to affect it.

Thanks so much.

[Anonymous]

Detail markers can be complicated creatures to get to behave properly. If you are new to GDL you may want to start with something a bit simpler.

You may just have a part that is sized to the model and not paper dimensions. You can use the GLOB_SCALE parameter to control this.

You will need to be more specific about what you are trying to do, and what is not working.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your response. What I am trying to do specifically is create a detail key that is a circle (Detail number and also sheet number go in the top and bottom of this circle respectively) and a line seperating the two extends to the right about 1.5 times the distance of the diameter of the circle. The line weights are light, etc. It seems like a pretty easy 2d symbol to create. Can you give me specifics on why you think that it continues to squish the object as if the who symbol were being made square over all versus being shorter than long. Thanks again.

[Anonymous]

The distortion is a mystery to me. Do you have any mul2 statements? Or are you using a drawn (rather than coded) symbol? Either of these could cause problems.

For the bubble try a simple statement in the 2D script such as:

Circle2 0, 0, bubble_radius*GLOB_SCALE

Along with the line and text at the right spots this should do the trick.