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M_Simons
25th Feb 2009, 03:28 pm
Hello,

Does anyone know how to modify the way AutoCAD Electrical populates the reference field of source/destination arrows? For instance when you insert a source/destination arrow AutoCAD automatically populates the reference field with "From" and "To". The appearance of "From" and "To" on a drawing is inconsistent with my company's standard. Is there a way to change this so that AutoCAD does not insert the "From" "To" at all, but will still insert the cross-references I have defined in the project? Or is there a way to modify the text AutoCAD inserts in place of "From", "To"?


I am able to manually delete the from and to, however this seems to defeat the purpose of ACADE

-Matt
MFish
11th Mar 2009, 09:11 pm
Hello,

Does anyone know how to modify the way AutoCAD Electrical populates the reference field of source/destination arrows? For instance when you insert a source/destination arrow AutoCAD automatically populates the reference field with "From" and "To". The appearance of "From" and "To" on a drawing is inconsistent with my company's standard. Is there a way to change this so that AutoCAD does not insert the "From" "To" at all, but will still insert the cross-references I have defined in the project? Or is there a way to modify the text AutoCAD inserts in place of "From", "To"?


I am able to manually delete the from and to, however this seems to defeat the purpose of ACADE

-Matt


If you go into the original block for the destination arrow (HA4D3.DWG) and for the signal arrow (HA4S1.DWG) You can double click the XREF attribute and modify the PROMPT line.

Note: the above mentioned DWG's are the Signal Arrows I use. If you use different ones, just double click on one that you have used in the past and it will tell you what block name it is saved under.

If there is anything else, or if that is not what you were trying to change just let us know. :wink:
M_Simons
16th Mar 2009, 04:50 pm
Yes, that is exactly what I did to resolve the issue.

Thanks!
MFish
16th Mar 2009, 08:11 pm
Yes, that is exactly what I did to resolve the issue.

Thanks!

I am glad I could help :wink: