I hope you all will bear with me as I attempt to get my ducks in a row for things I've long neglected and, in the process, asking a lot of questions, as well as sometimes unnecessarily recreating the wheel.
I'm currently creating symbols for drawing bugs, etc., with placeholder numbers/letters so that I can easily place the bug and then edit the placeholders. (Does that exist somewhere that I can merely grab/download rather than create? The standard drawing symbols in DataCad, as far as I can tell, don't have text in them. But I can't be the first one wanting to do this.)
I've figured out how to group the lines in the symbol-to-be and then place the text, and then save the symbol. That way, with Explode on when placing the symbol, I can edit the placeholder text. What I can't do is delete the whole symbol as a group when needed. I'd have to delete the grouped lines and then separately delete the placeholder text parts.
What am I missing in this process? Or, as I mentioned earlier, do these symbols already exist somewhere?
Thanks, as always, to you gurus.
I'm currently creating symbols for drawing bugs, etc., with placeholder numbers/letters so that I can easily place the bug and then edit the placeholders. (Does that exist somewhere that I can merely grab/download rather than create? The standard drawing symbols in DataCad, as far as I can tell, don't have text in them. But I can't be the first one wanting to do this.)
I've figured out how to group the lines in the symbol-to-be and then place the text, and then save the symbol. That way, with Explode on when placing the symbol, I can edit the placeholder text. What I can't do is delete the whole symbol as a group when needed. I'd have to delete the grouped lines and then separately delete the placeholder text parts.
What am I missing in this process? Or, as I mentioned earlier, do these symbols already exist somewhere?
Thanks, as always, to you gurus.
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