Re: DBUG> exploded symbols

[David Porter AIA <dporter@porterarchitects.com>]

Thom Earnest wrote:

> Dcad11. I see how explode a symbol Before you place it BUT how do you 
> explode it After it's placed? Can't find it. Also, can you turn a placed 
> symbol to dashed line for a background without exploding it?

1.  A macro called SYMEXP that you should find in the DCAD Toolbox menu.

2.  Yes, but it's probably not worth the effort.  You can make a self 
xRef out of the symbols or a whole layer of symbols and then in the xRef 
Manager, you can set that layer to show as any single color you want 
and/or any linetype you want.  So, if you had symbols containing lots of 
different colors on one layer and you wanted them to show on the screen 
as dark blue and in a dashed line of 5" spacing, you can do all of that 
through the xRef manager.  If you had multiple layers of other symbols 
and you wanted them to show the same, you could make those layers also a 
part of the self xRef and they too would then show up with the xRef 
settings you made for the other symbols.  If you then had your plot pen 
settings to print out the dark blue color as a shaded line, you could 
then get all of the symbols to read as a tonal background color on the 
final prints and without exploding any of them.

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David Porter AIA
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
dporter@porterarchitects.com
www.porterarchitects.com
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