First time I have tried using these "new to me" features.
I was using detail boundary B, assigned the scale, and inserted the new drawing it gave me onto the same sheet.
Questions:
AEC Door Object Question:
6. I have a door hook on the back of my doors, how would I go about editing the AEC door in the original drawings to draw a door hook into the AEC element?
On the tool palette, right click the call out tool and select properties.
In the Section/Elevation style check the drop down box.
My guess is that it's set at "background" which makes it insert on nplot layers.
The purpose of this is so you can use it as a background and trace over line you want.
As for the hook on the back of the door, create a block for the hook and then edit the door style and add the block.
Do this via the "diplay properties" tab and then the "other tab", and add a "custom block".
You'll have to fiddle to get it to insert at the correct height and location.
Make sure you add the block to every display config you need it visible, e.g. medium display, high detail etc.
Why are the doors closed? It was cold and there was a draft.
Just kidding, you have to go and edit the diplay configs. (again)
I'm glad you like the titlenote....hehe
Good answers Leo.
I would like to continue my questions about using the Detail Boundaries.
I have a drawing where I have recreated my building section using the Detailing tool palette using lumber, insulation, plywood, and gypsum board.
Since everything is drawn in a 2D flat plane. (Z coords = 0) Autocad will ask me to specify the elevation, then the depth, then it allows me to place the detail, and then nothing shows up at all.
I presume that it does this since there are no AEC 3D objects so the detail boundaries gives up and just won't do anything.
Any flat objects that do not have any thickness will not show up in the detail.
If I did take a line and give it a thickness, it will now show up. But giving a thickness to the 2x4 lumber block means exploding that block.
I guess I want this to work more like an elevation looking down on my model space. I want to be able to draw a building section once, then pull out details, and wall sections at varying annotative scales, to different sheets. Using the current colours I am already using. I have figured out how to do all this already, except for automatically pulling the title of the detail from the model space view, scale, and detail number. Do you know if this would work with the tools Autocad already has?