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Bruce Kieffer

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  1. 12 minutes ago, Pat Stanford said:

    Attaching the record and then using Data Tags allows you to get the information from the object and only put the tags where you want them instead of loading up with lots of classes so you can hide unwanted tags.

    I see what you did there, and I see benefits. I need to examine that further. Thanks for your help @Pat Stanford

  2. Looks like you make the symbol, flip it, then attach the tags to each symbol. My symbol is a door with 5 components. I attach the tags to each component inside the symbol, then mirror the symbol. That's why my tags flip. I now understand what you are doing, but I don't think that will work for me. 

  3. Let me elaborate... I noticed today that when the dimensions are set to feet and inches there is a hyphen between the feet and the inches. I do woodworking, we work in inches and fractions. I also remembered the fraction settings in the dimensions settings. I could place the numerator over the denominator with those settings. I never used that back in the day when I did my woodworking magazine technical drawings because the printers could not figure out how to display the fractions that way. Today my eyes are old so I need the fonts larger.

     

     

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  4. 8 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

    I don't think the classes thing will work if you need to show them both at the same time.  You would need to have four classes.  Right-Correct Text, Right-Flipped Text, Left-Correct Text, Left-Flipped text.  And then I can then of cases where even that would not be enough. Like if you have doors on the front and back of cabinets.

     

    I will try to give you more about data tags tomorrow.  

     

    You know how to make a record and attach it don't you? If so, tell me the record and field name so I can use them in the data tag

     

    Good point about my classes idea.

     

    I do know how to make and attach records. I would use Tag Text as the record name, and Flipped as the field name.

  5. 1 hour ago, Pat Stanford said:

    Best work around I can think of is to remove the text from the symbol. Put the identifier in a Record.Field and the use a Data Tag to tag the objects.

    @Pat Stanford Can you give me more info how this is done? 

     

    I had a thought of another workaround. Apply the Data Tag to both sides of the object in the symbol, then create two classes, one for Data Tags, one for Flipped Data Tags. I have not tried this yet.

  6. Is it possible to use an if/then formula in a data tag definition? I'm tagging a Material I named PB, and I want to tag that as Particle Board. Alternatively I could change the Material to Particle Board and use an if/then formula in my worksheets that count the Particle Board Material, and make them display PB.

  7. Is there a way to apply Data Tags to individual objects inside symbols? Here's a VP layout of doors I'm going to build for our kitchen. Part ID records are attached to the individual parts of the stiles, rails, and center panels. Each different door is a symbol. My worksheets do pick up the individual parts and their part IDs, but the Data Tag tool only works on the individual parts if they are not in a symbol. I converted the top left door from a symbol to a group and that way the individual objects can be tagged with the Data Tag tool. Needing to convert the symbols to groups defeats the purpose of a symbol's ability to be modified and then update all of its instances in the drawing.

     

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