digitalcarbon Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 can we make lines like this? ----P----P----P---- if not why not. is this not something basic. Quote Link to comment
panthony Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Herin lies the extreme power of VW.... Using the "Repetative Unit" tool you use a symbol ("P") saved in your current document or in your favorites as the object you want repeated along a line, curve, bezier, arc...you get the point. Here's the kicker... once you set the line with your repeating symbol just change the line attribute to dashed. Or better yet just make a class with the line attrubutes pre-defined and use it exclusivly for your letter delinated line. Pretty simple...huh! Pete A. Quote Link to comment
panthony Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Oh...and if you want to increase the size of the text or even insert a word....just edit the symbol or substitute another symbol in its place through the OIP. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Nevertheless, I prefer to use my own line & polygon objects that make the process totally painless (text, symbol or 2 alternating symbols) and allows adjustment of spacing. Should be a built-in feature instead of something one needs to implement through programming! Quote Link to comment
Tom K Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 You can adjust the spacing simply by changing the pitch in OIP. Once I figured out using the repetative unit tool for custom lines, I found it way easier than trying to do the same thing in that other program (ACAD). What special programming, type a letter or word, create symbol of it, draw line using RU tool. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 OK - it may be that this Repetitive Unit does what my PIO does and is the "built-in feature". Obviously something new in VW 12. Well, if I ever upgrade, at least one PIO less to modify & install, so thanks Tom for explaining what Pete already had showed. I thought he was talking about Duplicate Along Line, which has been used for the purpose. Time to learn to read. Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 if you want to see this in action.. Have a look at my podcast: http://web.mac.com/jpickup1/iWeb/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Kudos to Peter for his lateral thinking on this one. A great suggestion. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 I have finally concluded that line styles with at least simple markers - letters, crosses, ticks etc - would definitely be useful. They could be applied to any objects and existing objects. Duplicate Along Path is of course the workaround, but it is clumsy and non-editable. Quote Link to comment
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