topic Re: Missing attribute in symbol builder image in AutoCAD Electrical Forum

Missing attribute in symbol builder image

love.lustig — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 08:15:30 GMT

I'm creating a basic user defined terminal with attributes both above and below. These attributes have a tag name, a prompt and a value of XX. I want the value XX to be visible on the image that is created when I save but it is not.

On other symbols I have created it works fine, I can't figure out why this one is not working. Any ideas?

I have attached both Image .png file and the .dwg file.

Re: Missing attribute in symbol builder image

alds02 — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:40:44 GMT

Looks fine when I drag it into a file:

Delete all instances from your drawing and use the purge command. Then try again. Does that work?

Re: Missing attribute in symbol builder image

love.lustig — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:32:10 GMT

Yes, the symbol works as intended. But the image dosen't show the attribute values for some reason.

Re: Missing attribute in symbol builder image

rhesusminus — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:09:46 GMT

The texts are there, they're just located outside of the square image because AutoCAD Electrical doesn't pay attention to the text justification of the attributes when generating the preview 😞

Adding some graphics will show them....

Re: Missing attribute in symbol builder image

love.lustig — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:19:06 GMT

Thats intresting. I wonder why the attributes is vissible on some images but not others. I can't seem to find any differences.

Re: Missing attribute in symbol builder image

rhesusminus — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:37:28 GMT

I guess it has to do with the location/justification of the attributes in the other symbols. If you can post an example symbol where it works, maybe we can figure this out.

Re: Missing attribute in symbol builder image

galashkina — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:21:32 GMT

I changed the properties of the TAG1 and LOC attributes to visible.

The attachment contains the modified file.