Our CSM drawings require dashed lines under certain text, but just drawing a line under it is proving problem some when using in different annotative scale pages.
Thanks,
Todd
If your CAD standards allow you to use PSLTSCALE = 1, do it! This makes linetypes draw the same at all annotation scales. Unfortunately, if you aren't consisitently using LTSCALE = 1, you will run into problems as it is a drawing wide setting.
Just a stab in the dark: Perhaps an annotative multileader defined with a block of the dashed line attached to the landing might work. Or a annotative dyno block with a multiline attribute.
How about an annotative block with attributes or maybe a dynamic block?
Hi Vincent
Whats your question?
No question really. I'm thinking this can be done with an annotative block with attributes or maybe a dynamic block.
@Joe-Bouza wrote:
Just a stab in the dark: Perhaps an annotative multileader defined with a block of the dashed line attached to the landing might work. Or a annotative dyno block with a multiline attribute.
That would still require manually changing the line length to match the attribute (text) width which the OP has already said he's looking to avoid.
I *think* that an add-in could be written to do it. But it would require a lot of background overhead and I would question its value.
This add-in would have to get loaded with EVERY dwg file. Then it would register an event handler so that everytime this block's attributes are changed, the add-in would get the new attribute length and change the line length accordingly.
But as I said, I would question its value vs all that added overhead.
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
Hi Doni
The idea behind a dyno block is that it maintains the same plotted size regardless of scale. As you can see in the image the visual fidelity for 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 scale the block resizes as would the anno attribute that would go on top of it. There would be no need to manually resize the line, as you can see. The op would however have to manually adjust the postion based on scale but that comes with the territory of using annotative annything. And yes, with a little more thought the ltscale can be cotroled too
Ooooohhhh -- I'm gonna have to investigate these. I thought you were referring to Dynamic Blocks and I had previously tried to something very similar to this using Dynamic blocks (last year when I first got started using them) and when I asked about it, the consensus was that it couldn't be done.
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
I still think a Civil 3D Note Label would be the best bet. The line can be attached to the text and will always be correct. See attached image.
and here it is with the attribute
Joe,
Would you mind posting that block? I'd to experiment with it.
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician