Would you please add the lateral width and sleeve width options in the pipe data window same as the mainline..
Thank you
Nibal
Thank you
Nibal
Nibal,
Thanks for the feature request, however, You should be monitoring your line weights in your CTB file. Setting your layer colors to plot at a certain thickness through the plot style is more appropriate for your laterals and sleeves. Please take a look at the links below on how to modify your CTB files to affect your line thicknesses.
Modify Existing CTB Plot Styles
About CTB Plot Styles
Also, if you would like to give it a try, we do have a sleeve option that is a solid thick line, which might work best for you. See the link below on choosing a sleeve option.
Pipe Sleeves
Thanks for the feature request, however, You should be monitoring your line weights in your CTB file. Setting your layer colors to plot at a certain thickness through the plot style is more appropriate for your laterals and sleeves. Please take a look at the links below on how to modify your CTB files to affect your line thicknesses.
Modify Existing CTB Plot Styles
About CTB Plot Styles
Also, if you would like to give it a try, we do have a sleeve option that is a solid thick line, which might work best for you. See the link below on choosing a sleeve option.
Pipe Sleeves
Nibal,
Thanks for the feature request, however, You should be monitoring your line weights in your CTB file. Setting your layer colors to plot at a certain thickness through the plot style is more appropriate for your laterals and sleeves. Please take a look at the links below on how to modify your CTB files to affect your line thicknesses.
Modify Existing CTB Plot Styles
About CTB Plot Styles
Also, if you would like to give it a try, we do have a sleeve option that is a solid thick line, which might work best for you. See the link below on choosing a sleeve option.
Pipe Sleeves
Thanks for the feature request, however, You should be monitoring your line weights in your CTB file. Setting your layer colors to plot at a certain thickness through the plot style is more appropriate for your laterals and sleeves. Please take a look at the links below on how to modify your CTB files to affect your line thicknesses.
Modify Existing CTB Plot Styles
About CTB Plot Styles
Also, if you would like to give it a try, we do have a sleeve option that is a solid thick line, which might work best for you. See the link below on choosing a sleeve option.
Pipe Sleeves
Hi Jake, I wanted to revive this topic because i have a similar request for the sleeve width. I'd like to manually set the default width between the sleeve lines. Currently, after placing the sleeve on the second click, the system asks for a 'sleeve width', but number key entry results in "unknown keyboard command". It seems like the option is supposed to be there, so de-bugging it or allowing it to be set globally would be very much appreciated
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Zeek,
Currently, right clicking for default sleeve width places them at 0.05" separation, a hard-coded value.
You're correct that it doesn't accept keyboard input to enter a distance. This is due to some annoying technical considerations with the ability to accept mouse or keyboard input, in short it's just very unwieldy.
It is worth mentioning, that we receive plenty of tech support tickets from people misunderstanding the Mainline Width setting. So if we were to offer some ability to enter a numeric distance for pipe sleeve, there is always the issue of confusion between modelspace and paperspace units.
One option would be that rather than always defaulting to the hard-coded default, it could default to the last size specified. But then there's the difficulty in how to go back to the default.
We could add the default size to Preferences, we have just questioned if it merits that, and then it also has the issue that the mainline width setting has had.
Did you have any ideas on how think setting the default should work?
--J
Currently, right clicking for default sleeve width places them at 0.05" separation, a hard-coded value.
You're correct that it doesn't accept keyboard input to enter a distance. This is due to some annoying technical considerations with the ability to accept mouse or keyboard input, in short it's just very unwieldy.
It is worth mentioning, that we receive plenty of tech support tickets from people misunderstanding the Mainline Width setting. So if we were to offer some ability to enter a numeric distance for pipe sleeve, there is always the issue of confusion between modelspace and paperspace units.
One option would be that rather than always defaulting to the hard-coded default, it could default to the last size specified. But then there's the difficulty in how to go back to the default.
We could add the default size to Preferences, we have just questioned if it merits that, and then it also has the issue that the mainline width setting has had.
Did you have any ideas on how think setting the default should work?
--J
Thank you for the reply. Given the difficulties you mentioned, the idea of using the the last width set is the most promising. Perhaps having the LISP display three options in the command line [User-defined] [Last User Entry] [Standard -0.05"]. This could made to into a session-based variable so that the last choice becomes the Default action until changed. I'm not sure how you are coding at LandFX, but for a LISP routine you can set that initial choice as a 'Global' variable instead of a local one that resets with each command execution. When the command is run, and a choice is made, it gets saved as a 'variable' and is stored in AutoCAD's active memory, so it only stays as long as that AutoCAD session remains open. The original LISP remains untouched.
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