Jpier Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Hi: I am working on a floor plan for a manufacturing area and I want to include arrows indicating the direction of flow of materials throughout and around the floor to the various pieces of equipment. Does Autocad have a library of these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobsy852 Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 you could use the "mleader" command (enter it in the command line without the exclamation marks), and then when it gives you the option to enter some text just press Esc to cancel it and it will leave just the arrow behind (depending on how your multi-leaders are set up, if they're set to default it should draw an arrow head at the end, and not an oblique or anything!) Hope that works for ya! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 You could create your own Dynamic Block of a flow arrow and depending on how you have it set up the block could incorporate different directional arrows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazacad Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 A quick and easy way is to use text - WingDings 3 abcdeYZX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpier Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 A quick and easy way is to use text - WingDings 3 abcdeYZX thanks for your response Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpier Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 thanks for your response. Unfortunately, since I am so new to AutoCad I would not know how to use a Dynamic Block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpier Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 thanks I will give it a try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 You might like this lisp, add an arrow in the line. LTFly Instructions.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpier Posted August 15, 2010 Author Share Posted August 15, 2010 thanks for your response Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 Or you could use a line type with the "greater than" or "less than" characters to show the direction. This is good for Romans font, but for other fonts the Y dimension would have to be slightly adjusted to keep the arrow on line. *ARROW_RIGHT,Arrow line Right---- > ---- > ---- > ---- A,.5,-0,[">",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.0477] *ARROW_LEFT,Arrow line Left---- A,.5,-0,[" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpier Posted August 15, 2010 Author Share Posted August 15, 2010 Thanks for your response Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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