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headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3937) [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 5079: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3937) [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 5080: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3937) [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 5081: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3937) forum.datacad.com View topic - DBUG Request - Send me your Layered Symbols!
Next Wednesday (March 14th), we are hosting DBUG at Signature Architects, and I want to present the new layer control in symbols. If you have symbols that you are using with this new feature - and if you can send them to me, I would like to use them to show how it can be used.
I don't have many (yet) but will try to put a small pack together for ya.
One big way to use them I have come across is for knockouts. Before when adding a knockout to a symbol it was kind of an all or nothing thing. So we would add the knockout to the symbol, usually on it's own layer named 'Knockouts" so the knockouts were all on the same layer and easy to manipulate physically and then control their display order. But when we would place these symbols in the drawing the knockout was always there. If there were places on the drawing where we wanted to use that symbol without the knockout we would have to explode the symbol which is usually not ideal. Now using the Per Instance Symbol Layer Control, we can toggle off the knockouts layer as needed and only for the locations where it's needed. Now with this granularity it makes sense for most symbols to have a knockout layer where before you had to kind of make sure that a knockout would be useful most of the time or it would be more work removing it all the time.
Second big thing for us is creating a halftone layer in symbols where a halftone version of the symbols contents lives. We can now easily toggle on the halftone layer and the other layers off to get a half-toned symbol and not have to explode the symbol into dumb entities and manually recolor them.
Third thing that I have thought about but haven't actually done yet is for just different versions of a symbol, say like 4', 6' bookcases to create pseudo dynamic symbols à la Autocad's dynamic blocks. Have to kind of think through how this would work in practice & where it would actually make sense to do vs just being "cool" and also how it would affect our symbol library organization structure.
Or toggling something on/off in a typical detail where only one small part might change but everything else in the symbol remains the same so you don't have to keep a larger than necessary symbol library.
Last edited by joshhuggins on Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:47 am, edited 1 time in total.
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