Actually John Nolte's idea is even better, you can embed a text variable
in a symbol that can be made to automatically ask for a text entry when
its placed in the drawing. by making the symbol with the color, line
type, and thickness set to by-symbol, you can color code each entry.
Enter the symbol either by holding down the control key or using 2-point
entry will automatically hide a segment of a polyline (it cuts a non-polyline).
You could also add other database entries to the text label I.E. wire type
or size. This allows the the database function to easily extract
and sort data on the wires.
Rod
Harvey wrote:
> Use Trim>Alcove to create a segment around the
text. Right click
> to exit trim mode, and double click on the line to get to
> edit-nodes-mode, select the segment then check Hide box in the
> Edit bar, click on Move Segment (with the segment still selected)
> and End Snap it back to the original line.
This seems like more work than merely segmenting the line with
Trim>Divide and deleting segments. Am I missing something?
If the call-out for each line is different, then line can ge extended
to
meet the text.
Are we skinning a cat the same way here?