Smart Components
@Lauren9QMTV wrote:
...To Summaries I need to create a new keynote block, and leader line, detail tag, elevations/section markers, room tags. These need to be modified to match the existing linework they have been using.
A stock installation of AutoCAD adds an ANNOTATION tab in TOOLPALETTES that can pretty much replace these with similar dynamic blocks: did you get a chance to try them to use as a base to create new objects?
These look like the old style QLEADER or LEADER command results, you can use MLEADERSTYLES to create replicas then just start using MLEADER command
Instead of a letter + a Pline haphazardly floating above each other, this can all be a block with Pline objects instead
These can be one block instead of a two floating MTEXT each
These can all be MLEADERs with predefined BLOCKs+Attributes for the shapes with text, all in one
I'm not sure what these three separate objects are meant to be
Each cluster here can be an individual block for example
You do have a lot of work ahead of you, where are you getting stuck?
@Lauren9QMTV wrote:
1. When I create a leader line using that command it still separates the text by the leader line....
MLEADER command: not "leader" not "qleader"
https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-764DA12B-1280-4D1A-8673-F9F8A136CB83
@Lauren9QMTV wrote:
2. I do not see those annotation options when I go to that tab. He doesn't use a pallet, I wonder if they were removed. I would love to get these items on my pallet, some let me some don't, while others attach to the pallet but loose his properties when I bring them in.
Not sure what you see, or don't, you did not share a screenshot. You can get to those blocks using ADCENTER too, and in Windows File Manager, at this address (change to your correct year version)
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 202x\Sample\en-us\Dynamic Blocks
@Lauren9QMTV wrote:
... 3. If I make the room names a block, how do I go about changing the text?
ATTRIBUTEs in blocks are text you can edit. Good time to learn these basics
https://www.engineering.com/story/a-closer-look-at-creating-and-using-attributes-in-autocad
@Lauren9QMTV wrote:
... 4. These square keynotes, I have not been able to figure out how to have a leader line with the square attached as a component.
MLEADERSTYLE command, with your block, then you use MLEADER command to add these too (MLEADER command is not just for text). Good time to learn that too
@Lauren9QMTV wrote:
....5. Those tick marks I think he uses to note a slope or a measurement that continues when it's trimmed?
I'm not sure I understand the use.
@Lauren9QMTV wrote:
...He uses layer states for different sets of floor plans. For example there are layers for construction, electrical, and framing used for room tags, detail titles, ect, all on top of eachother...
We all use layerstates too, but... Is this the-all-content-in-one-single-DWG-file method? I guess you all have never suffered an AutoCAD hiccup yet? While very rare, once a DWG is corrupt trying to recover less content is easier than trying to rebuild an entire project.
@Lauren9QMTV wrote:
...Id like to at least get items in 1/4" and 1/2" scales to help for the time being.
Annotative text/blocks/dimensions/mleaders is the way most of us have moved to in the last 20-years, one of each used in as many plot scales as needed. As long as you all use paperspace layouts of course.
