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Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

(OP)
I want to draw a line with an arrow on the end of it in the drafting application.
What's the simplest way of doing it?

I've messed around with text-free leaders and that sort of works, but it's not very elegant.

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

What may work for you is to add a note, with a leader, and a single blank space in the note, and then in style (for that note) > line/arrow > set "D" to zero

There probably is a better way, and we'll see what others have to say

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

There is a GRIP program in the library called arrowhead that will put an arrow on the end of a line.
 

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

oh yea . . . I forgot about that GRIP program, it's been there for many years

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

$$ PROGRAM: ARROWHEADS.GRS
$$
$$ ABSTRACT:  Draws arrowheads on the end of lines.


$$ PROGRAM: ARROWHEAD.GRS
$$
$$ ABSTRACT:  Creates an arrowhead on the end point of a line or arc.

Link to the library: http://grip.plmworldgroups.org/

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

I am sitting near the guy who (a couple months ago) told me that he wrote that program.

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

Arrowheads was written by the former RIP Librarian.
Arrowhead was written at Panduit, Corp.
I have my own modified version, too.
 

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

He worked at Panduit, someplace near Chicago

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

(OP)
I just downloaded arrowheads from here:
http://grip.plmworldgroups.org/

It works, but I need to change the csize to give me a larger arrow.
What is csize?
I guess that it's some sort of system variable relating to feature sizes for certain annotation.

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

(OP)
OK, I've sussed it. You change the annotation preferences.

RE: Drawing a basic arrow in drafting.

&csize is the GRIP word for setting the Character SIZE of text. The arrowhead programs relate the arrowhead size to character size.
 

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

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