Custom symbol for cable vs wire

[Michiel.Valcke]

Hello everyone,

I'm not very electrically charged so to speak 🙂 coming from other sectors. So the following question might seem evident to some of you, but I need some help or direction to figure out which would be the best approach.

Our client wants to be able to indicate the cable and cable type in which the individual wires are combined with one of the following symbols:

It looks like a series of linked cable markers, but it would have to be a single symbol which applies the cable marker 'slashed line' automatically on the intersection of the  crossing wires. (not necessarily pre-defined positions) Also it would be nice if the markers refer to the overarching symbol as in a parent/child relation or if the individual wires can have a reference to the cable name/indicator. 

Is this possible with the out of the box symbols? or do I need to make a custom symbol, would I be able to mimic this correctly with a custom cable marker symbol or should I make a combination of a basic cable marker symbol with some other symbol and command entry from the icon menu (so far I haven't made custom icon menu commands)

Or would this need to be developped including the behaviour in a series of custom Autolisp commands creating a new type of symbol with xdata and custom attributes?

Do any of you use a similar symbol? How did you make it? which workflow did you follow?

Thank you for your time.

[rhesusminus]

You already have the "slash symbols" as cable markers in Arcade. The first one will be the parent cable marker, and the rest child cable markers. The line across must be a polyline

that is no linked to the markers. 

[Michiel.Valcke]

Is there a way to make it work as a single custom symbol?

[arshdeepsingh404 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Michiel.Valcke 

You can use the multiple connected cables symbol to create something similar.

It creates a connected cables symbol with the first one as parent symbol and rest of them as child symbols connected to the first parent.

You can also define the default conductors of  a catalog under CONDUSCTORLIST

[arshdeepsingh404]

Also you can modify the cable symbols so they look more like the one in your picture.

For example: This symbol below uses VW01_5 as parent symbol, VW02_5B for child symbols, and VW02_5 for the last symbol.