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Symbols

PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:47 pm
by rogerra
I just opened an autocad drawing in Datacad v12.

There are note symbols that I can't seem to explode so that I can edit them.

Also, what is the difference between opening a .dwg file or importing it?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:13 pm
by Neil Blanchard
Hello Roger,

There is no difference between importing and opening a DWG. What do the notes identify as? Maybe they are MText? So, try using Change/Text/Contents.

Symbols

PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:40 pm
by rogerra
The notes in question identify as symbols in datacad.

Other text opens in the mtext box and I can edit it as needed. I just can't edit the symbol text.

PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:00 pm
by Neil Blanchard
Hi Roger,

Did you try to open the symbol in the Symbol Editor? You can Control-Right Click on it, and select Edit Symbol, or set up the Program Preferences to open the SE by double-clicking on it.

Symbols

PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:29 am
by rogerra
No, I have not tried cntrl right-click. I'll try it.

Thanks.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:53 pm
by rogerra
It worked.

Thanks.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:58 am
by Neil Blanchard
Hi Roger,

You're welcome -- I'm glad I could help.

Re: Symbols

PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:42 pm
by joeferguson
Thanx Neil,

I have been fighting this issue for several years now. You have no idea how many tens of hours I have spent tracing over those symbols so I could edit them.

Now for the next step: Some of my drawings have up to a dozen symbols that I want to explode, first to a polyline then to lines and arcs. So far I have visited each one and performed the explode step for each then convert them to lines and arcs using the area command.

Is there a way I can explode them all in one step?

Joe

Still on v. 12

Re: Symbols

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:10 am
by Roger D
Neil Blanchard wrote:Is there a way I can explode them all in one step?
Have you tried the 3dMenu/Explode/SymExplode command.
It might not get the polylines, but should turn all into individual entities, (lines, arcs, ellipses) etc.

Re: Symbols

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:27 am
by Roger D
joeferguson wrote:Is there a way I can explode them all in one step?

If you have the macro 3DTools, there is a "Kaboom!" command, yes that's the name and it explodes everything back to an entity based on some setttings.

Re: Symbols

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:40 pm
by joeferguson
Tried 3dMenu/Explode/Symexplode and it returns the message "The exploded entity is a symbol" but no explosion.

Don't think I have the Kaboom tool. Never seen it in 7 years. How does one get it?

joe

Re: Symbols

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:13 pm
by Roger D
I forget where I got the macro 3dTools from. It looks like it came from Madura studios, maybe it came with the program????

Re: Symbols

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by jimgoodman
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Re: Symbols

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:08 pm
by David A. Giesselman
rogerra wrote:I just opened an autocad drawing in Datacad v12.

There are note symbols that I can't seem to explode so that I can edit them.

I would suspect that, in typical Autocad fashion, that these symbols are nested n-levels deep. The Explode command in the 3D Edit menu only explodes 1 level at a time. Using that function, you would need to Explode the symbol "n" times until it is broken down into its base entities.

Dave