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craigr

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Is it acceptable in your place....
« on: June 09, 2010, 08:52:37 AM »
When drawing a line, say horizontal, 100' - Is it acceptable to drawi it in segments rather than ONE line?

We do mostly electrical dwgs. I have been trying to get our guys to stop drawing single lines in segments. When moving the lines, it is very annoying to only grab part of the line.

Sometimes there are even lines that have another one beneath it.

To me, this is just sloopy CAD work.

Is it tolerated in your place?

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2010, 08:55:05 AM »
Only one line is acceptable.
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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2010, 08:58:16 AM »
No.  That is one of my pet peeves.  Someone needs to learn the Extend or Stretch commands... and have their knuckles rapped so they don't forget it.

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2010, 09:05:21 AM »
Not acceptable here either. Its on my pet-peeves list. It is shoddy drafting and should be stopped, the sooner the better. Somebody here does it, but alas, it seems to be "Mr/Mrs Nobody" so we cant track it down.

It was one of the first things my trainer taught us years ago (in the days of the pen plotter) as the pen would keep drawing in the same place for as many lines as were there.
Thanks for explaining the word "many" to me, it means a lot.

JCTER

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2010, 09:09:42 AM »
overkill

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2010, 09:11:25 AM »
why not STOP using lines altogether, and ONLY draw polylines instead; in this manner the whole line would get moved, and not one segment at a time...

In the Civil world, polylines are also preferred as C3D has many tools designed to convert them into things like Alignments, and or Pipe Networks.

In my world polylines are preferred for better than 95% of everything I ever draw.
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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2010, 09:34:47 AM »
In I&E, polylines are overkill most of the time.  They have their uses, I suppose.

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2010, 09:35:42 AM »
yeah, plines work for us here but not in all situations and those drawings where folks draw multiple lines to represent a single line .. makes me want to choke someome
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craigr

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2010, 09:36:34 AM »
In I&E, polylines are overkill most of the time.  They have their uses, I suppose.

What is 'I&E' ?

M-dub

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2010, 09:37:18 AM »
Instrumentation & Electrical

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2010, 09:42:21 AM »
Instrumentation & Electrical
funny .. I never did any instrumentation, but with every electrical schematic I have ever had the pleasure of working on, it was mandatory to use plines .. but then maybe your electrical is different from schematics and wiring plans
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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2010, 09:44:27 AM »
one line

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2010, 09:44:46 AM »
In I&E, polylines are overkill most of the time.  They have their uses, I suppose.
curious..how is a polyline overkill for this use...a (poly)line on a layer connecting to connection points on a diagram?
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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2010, 09:45:05 AM »
yes, that is acceptable; in fact i recommend putting several lines on top of each other all on different layers. I also like to have items with different start and end z values.
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craigr

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Re: Is it acceptable in your place....
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2010, 09:45:40 AM »
I don't see what PLines are soooo much better than regular lines.