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Title: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: Rabbit on February 04, 2011, 08:56:36 AM

I do electrical drawings where we will callout conduits as such: 1"C: 3#4, #4G
That's all great unless autostack is on.  Or, if I have 1¹/2" conduit in which I want the 1/2 stacked and have to manually stack it.
What I would like to know is if there is a way to change the autostack symbol from # to something else, maybe the tilde symbol ~

Tnhanks,
Rabbit

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: Nibster on February 04, 2011, 10:21:32 AM

highlight the stacked text in the text editor, right-click, click on 'stack properties' option, then click on the 'AutoStack' button, then deselect the "Enable AutoStacking" option.

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: Krushert on February 04, 2011, 10:31:28 AM

^ what he said
... and big welcome to the TheSwamp!   :-)

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: Rabbit on February 04, 2011, 10:32:17 AM

Quote from: Nibster on February 04, 2011, 10:21:32 AM

highlight the stacked text in the text editor, right-click, click on 'stack properties' option, then click on the 'AutoStack' button, then deselect the "Enable AutoStacking" option.

Thanks for the info and the comment, but that's not what I'm interested in doing.  If I have autostack on, then my electrical tags get stacked.  If I have it off, then my conduit sizes don't get stacked.  What would be great is if the symbol for the type of stacking can be changed to something other than the # symbol.

Rabbit

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: Nibster on February 04, 2011, 11:18:25 AM

Quote from: Rabbit on February 04, 2011, 10:32:17 AM

Quote from: Nibster on February 04, 2011, 10:21:32 AM

highlight the stacked text in the text editor, right-click, click on 'stack properties' option, then click on the 'AutoStack' button, then deselect the "Enable AutoStacking" option.

Thanks for the info and the comment, but that's not what I'm interested in doing.  If I have autostack on, then my electrical tags get stacked.  If I have it off, then my conduit sizes don't get stacked.  What would be great is if the symbol for the type of stacking can be changed to something other than the # symbol.

Rabbit

well, it looks like it's either on or off and I can't find where to change characters, so another option is to highlight and manually stack where needed.

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: M-dub on February 04, 2011, 11:20:33 AM

Yeah, unfortunately, I think you're out of luck.

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: Rabbit on February 04, 2011, 11:28:00 AM

Quote from: M-dub on February 04, 2011, 11:20:33 AM

Yeah, unfortunately, I think you're out of luck.

Yeah, that's what I thought.  I figured with all the enormous talent here, someone would know a secret backdoor entrance into AutoCAD to fix such a thing.

Thanks for the replies,
Rabbit

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: Matt__W on February 04, 2011, 11:35:10 AM

Quote from: Rabbit on February 04, 2011, 11:28:00 AM

Quote from: M-dub on February 04, 2011, 11:20:33 AM

Yeah, unfortunately, I think you're out of luck.

Yeah, that's what I thought.  I figured with all the enormous talent here, someone would know a secret backdoor entrance into AutoCAD to fix such a thing.

Thanks for the replies,
Rabbit

Greg and Mav know all about the "secret backdoor entrance".

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: dgorsman on February 04, 2011, 12:13:59 PM

Turn it off, and keep your fractional sizes inline rather than stacked.  I still get drawings which attempt to be fancy with stacked fractions only to end up with "?" all over the drawing.   :realmad:

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: Rob... on February 04, 2011, 12:20:19 PM

Quote from: dgorsman on February 04, 2011, 12:13:59 PM

Turn it off, and keep your fractional sizes inline rather than stacked.  I still get drawings which attempt to be fancy with stacked fractions only to end up with "?" all over the drawing.   :realmad:

Agreed 100%

Title: Re: Change autostacking symbol
Post by: sugarCAD on February 04, 2011, 03:13:57 PM

Can you use single line text for your callouts, maybe make them attributes.