isyme Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Hi there, Is it possible to create custom HopOver styles for circuits? For instance changing it from a circular hop to a line break that could stretch for much longer distances? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Conrad Preen Posted November 4, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 4, 2020 Hi @isyme Right now there isn't such a facility. But how about you post me a picture of what you are looking for and tell me a bit about how you would use it? Regards Conrad Quote Link to comment
isyme Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Hi @Conrad Preen, Heres a few screengrabs from a project Im working on at the moment. The blue dashed line needs to hop over quite a few red lines - something that the hop-over tool cant do. I encounter this a lot on the types of schematics we draw and wasnt so much of an issue when drafting them in other software packages. Here I have drawn a white box underneath the blue line to sort of indicate what I imagine it could be like (borrowing the idea from other line break styles in Omnigraffle). If there was a way to autohop and break based on forward and back positioning that would be ideal! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Conrad Preen Posted November 9, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 9, 2020 2 hours ago, isyme said: If there was a way to autohop and break based on forward and back positioning that would be ideal! That sounds like a nice idea... I'm a little wary of how the process of detecting the crossovers would scale on big drawings though. Conrad Quote Link to comment
isyme Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Just now, Conrad Preen said: That sounds like a nice idea... I'm a little wary of how the process of detecting the crossovers would scale on big drawings though. Conrad Yes, I'm aware it could become a bit of a mess if it was solely based on object hierarchy. Perhaps circuits could have a priority level ... High would mean it always hops over, Medium means it is flexible, Low would mean it is always hopped over? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Conrad Preen Posted November 9, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 9, 2020 I'll have think about it - not promising anything. ConnectCAD did without hop-overs for almost 15 years. And very few people had a problem with that. Quite often a hop-over is a sign that a drawing would be clearer if laid out in a different way or that the circuit in question should be set to arrow-style. One of the neat things about ConnectCAD is that it's really easy to re-order sockets in devices to uncross your wires. Not saying that your use-case isn't valid but sometimes it pays to think out of the box. Conrad Quote Link to comment
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