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Electrical Wire Styles

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tarmbruster
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‎11-05-2003 09:37 PM
‎11-05-2003 09:37 PM

Electrical Wire Styles

Is it possible to create a wire style with an "E" in it for emergency wiring, similar to and abbreviation like CW in a pipe

Tom A.
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Anonymous
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‎11-05-2003 11:38 PM
‎11-05-2003 11:38 PM

Hi Toma!

 

If I understand you correctly you would like to
change your wire style to automatically label your wires with an E for an
emergency wirestyle. Unfortunately you can't use automatic labeling with wires
:(. You can label your wires by hand as usual.

 

I tried a "strange" workaround if this would help
you in any way... First I created a block of an E (text) with an offset
insertionpoint + one block looking like the conductor/neutral/ground ticks,
then I Used the tick marks annotation in the wirestyle and assigned no
block to the Conductor, and my custom blocks; E to Neutral and ticks to
Ground, set angle to zero and fiddled a bit with the distance. Now I got a style
which always inserts E + ticks. The limitations are that the E will always
go on the same layer as the ticks and wire + the E doesn't mask the
wire.

 

hth

 

/Hakan Wikemar



style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Is
it possible to create a wire style with an "E" in it for emergency wiring,
similar to and abbreviation like CW in a pipe

Tom A.

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Anonymous
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‎11-05-2003 11:38 PM
‎11-05-2003 11:38 PM

Hi Toma!

 

If I understand you correctly you would like to
change your wire style to automatically label your wires with an E for an
emergency wirestyle. Unfortunately you can't use automatic labeling with wires
:(. You can label your wires by hand as usual.

 

I tried a "strange" workaround if this would help
you in any way... First I created a block of an E (text) with an offset
insertionpoint + one block looking like the conductor/neutral/ground ticks,
then I Used the tick marks annotation in the wirestyle and assigned no
block to the Conductor, and my custom blocks; E to Neutral and ticks to
Ground, set angle to zero and fiddled a bit with the distance. Now I got a style
which always inserts E + ticks. The limitations are that the E will always
go on the same layer as the ticks and wire + the E doesn't mask the
wire.

 

hth

 

/Hakan Wikemar



style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Is
it possible to create a wire style with an "E" in it for emergency wiring,
similar to and abbreviation like CW in a pipe

Tom A.

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Anonymous
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‎11-09-2003 11:33 PM
‎11-09-2003 11:33 PM

What if you were to make a custom linetype that had
the "E" it, then assign that linetype to the system?

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Hi Toma!

 

If I understand you correctly you would like to
change your wire style to automatically label your wires with an E for an
emergency wirestyle. Unfortunately you can't use automatic labeling with wires
:(. You can label your wires by hand as usual.

 

I tried a "strange" workaround if this would help
you in any way... First I created a block of an E (text) with an offset
insertionpoint + one block looking like the conductor/neutral/ground
ticks, then I Used the tick marks annotation in the wirestyle and
assigned no block to the Conductor, and my custom blocks; E to Neutral
and ticks to Ground, set angle to zero and fiddled a bit with the distance.
Now I got a style which always inserts E + ticks. The limitations are
that the E will always go on the same layer as the ticks and wire + the E
doesn't mask the wire.

 

hth

 

/Hakan Wikemar



style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Is
it possible to create a wire style with an "E" in it for emergency wiring,
similar to and abbreviation like CW in a pipe

Tom A.

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Anonymous
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‎08-18-2006 06:23 AM
‎08-18-2006 06:23 AM

I once set up a variety of custom line types to represent different types of fire alarm circuits, ie:

-------SLC-------
-------NAC------
-------IDC--------

It worked well except that when you draw the arc/line in the wrong direction (from left to right as opposed to right to left) the text appears upside down.

With lines you can go back and rotate it 180 degrees so the text appears upright but not with arcs.

Also, if you continue an arc (so it's "S" shaped) the text will go one direction on one segment and the other on the other segment.

It proved to be more of a hassle than it was worth so I abandoned that idea.
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