Talking MEP 2D Symbol Offset - Horizontal And Vertical Solution
I was given a Socket outlet with a 2D symbol that could be offset Horizontally And vertically.
Now I need to understand how it works to replicate it with all my other MEP families.
I can change the symbol for example from the original socket outlet to a data outlet, and it stops working so I missing something, not locking a dim to something.
I am sure there are plenty of us who need this.
So here is what I have, and it is all done in the annotation Family, it just needs dissecting and reapplying to other 2D Symbols.
So we have from the top down:
A generic annotation
3 Dims
3 Parameters
The Parameters are as follows:
Vert Symbol Offset (default), Family Parameter, Instance, Common, Length, Dimensions
Horiz Symbol Offset (default), Family Parameter, Instance, Common, Length, Dimensions
Pivot (default) Family Parameter, Instance, Common, Length, Other, Value 50.-, Formula = Horiz Symbol Offset + 50 mm
The 2D symbol is a "Detail Group Symbol"
As mentioned I edit the Detail Group Symbol to suit the family and the offsets both stop working, this must be something I am not seeing or doing.
So close to having a full library of MEP With offset symbols for GA's without having to affect the setting out in 3D.
Please Help all us MEP Drafters
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Talking MEP 2D Symbol Offset - Horizontal And Vertical Solution
I was given a Socket outlet with a 2D symbol that could be offset Horizontally And vertically.
Now I need to understand how it works to replicate it with all my other MEP families.
I can change the symbol for example from the original socket outlet to a data outlet, and it stops working so I missing something, not locking a dim to something.
I am sure there are plenty of us who need this.
So here is what I have, and it is all done in the annotation Family, it just needs dissecting and reapplying to other 2D Symbols.
So we have from the top down:
A generic annotation
3 Dims
3 Parameters
The Parameters are as follows:
Vert Symbol Offset (default), Family Parameter, Instance, Common, Length, Dimensions
Horiz Symbol Offset (default), Family Parameter, Instance, Common, Length, Dimensions
Pivot (default) Family Parameter, Instance, Common, Length, Other, Value 50.-, Formula = Horiz Symbol Offset + 50 mm
The 2D symbol is a "Detail Group Symbol"
As mentioned I edit the Detail Group Symbol to suit the family and the offsets both stop working, this must be something I am not seeing or doing.
So close to having a full library of MEP With offset symbols for GA's without having to affect the setting out in 3D.
Please Help all us MEP Drafters
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first off, i would have used a Detail Item, not a Group, but that's my personal preference.
see if this helps, i remade the one you have from scratch to show how it was likely made.
here is a screencast showing the steps.
Howard Munsell
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first off, i would have used a Detail Item, not a Group, but that's my personal preference.
see if this helps, i remade the one you have from scratch to show how it was likely made.
here is a screencast showing the steps.
Howard Munsell
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Thank you so much for your effort with this, and the solution, really fantastic, I can not thank you enough, this has been racking my brain for so long.
And the screencast makes it so I can understand the steps and reasons, this is invaluable to MEP drafters and will help a lot of people achieve this requirement.
Thank you so much for your effort with this, and the solution, really fantastic, I can not thank you enough, this has been racking my brain for so long.
And the screencast makes it so I can understand the steps and reasons, this is invaluable to MEP drafters and will help a lot of people achieve this requirement.
"There is also a formula in there assigned to a Pivot parameter, I don't totally understand why that is there but is being controlled by the Horiz parameter to always add the 50mm offset."
I presumed this was a way off offsetting up to 50mm?
"There is also a formula in there assigned to a Pivot parameter, I don't totally understand why that is there but is being controlled by the Horiz parameter to always add the 50mm offset."
I presumed this was a way off offsetting up to 50mm?
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