Tags (or Labels or Balloons) in 3D Piping Environment

[volkan]

Hi,

Probably this is a very easy thing to do but I can't find a solution.

I want to give permanent tags (or labels or ballons) in 3D piping environment to pipelines so I can easily identify their line number when I look at them. You may think the "label" as the image below but the label should remain permanent on the selected pipelines for easy identification.

Hope I can describe my question well.

Regards,

Volkan

[jabowabo]

I'm pretty sure this is not possible out-of-the-box.  The only tagging that can be set up in the project manager is for orthos.  However, this can be done with LISP or .Net if you have someone on staff familiar with either.

[volkan]

Thank you very much for your answer. I don't have any experience with .net and lisps. So i think it's better to manage those pipelines via layer manager. 🙂

[jabowabo · Accepted solution]

Here's a quick example of how to accomplish this with LISP:  P3dTagLine

[volkan]

Thank you very much. I load the lisp via appload and it works like a charm. You save my day. 🙂

[enriquemiyaGUA6S]

Hi Guys, how to download the lisp file?

[willinsuite]

Do you still have this lisp file, the Box says its no longer there.

[jabowabo]

; wjasonhudson@gmail.com
; Note: Current mleader style needs to be type Multileader Type: "Mtext"
; 
(defun c:TagLine ( / myEnt vlaobj lineNumTag mlObj)
  (vl-load-com)
  ; get the line number from piping obj
  (setq myEnt (car (entsel)))
  (setq vlaobj (vlax-ename->vla-object myEnt))
  (setq lineNumTag (vlax-get-property vlaobj 'LineNumberTag))
  
  ; create the mleader. 
  (command "_MLEADER" pause pause "")
  
  ; change mleader text to line number tag
  (setq mlObj (vlax-ename->vla-object (entlast)))
  (if (= (vlax-get-property mlObj 'ObjectName) "AcDbMLeader")
    (vlax-put-property mlObj 'TextString lineNumTag)
    (exit)	   
  )
  (princ)
)

[willinsuite]

Oh I see, This doesn't work when the Piping is Xref'ed in.

[jabowabo]

LISP cannot access that info in an Xref - you can do it through .NET but it's tricky.

[willinsuite]

Yeah it's a real pain. I co-wrote a lisp a year or so ago that was able to do it but it has magically been deleted from the cloud drive it was stored on.