Best practice?

"WormSign" wrote in news:Cgy7i.141247$_c5.10966@attbi_s22:

Your method sounds a little more robust, since it will be tied to the part geometry. To make a note with more thant one leader, you first create a note with one leader. ctrl+drag the arrow to make more leaders. You could also use a multi-jog leader with arrows on either end, plus a note, but that's more work. I don't think you'll do much better than your present method.

What we do here is a text favorite "" that we load into the drawing and place on the part without a leader. We can then rotate it 90 degrees if we need to.

Reaper.

I'm in the office furniture industry; we specify grain direction on all wood parts by adding "GRAIN" to the over all length/width dimension that measures the same direction as the grain. For instance a desk top that is 72" long would have "Grain" added to the 72" dimension on the drawing; this can be at the end of the dim. or below the dim. This is fairly quick and clearly indicates direction. This should work as well for stainless steel.

this sounds like you are identifying grain direction for a surface symbol. if this is true then you can use a lay symbol with the surface symbol. you can specify radial (modifier R), perpendicular to symbol (symbol _|_), angular cross pattern (symbol X), multi directional pattern (symbol M), circular lay (symbol C), parallel lay (symbol =), or a partuculate lay (basically a sand blast, symbol P). these are all modifiers in the surface symbol function.

Words of Wisdom (WoW): only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. iQ

That really would confuse the guys in the shop. Remember these are the guys who come up and ask you what 3/16 is! When I tell them 3/16 is 3/16 they say what? I know they want to know the decimal equivalent but I still like to mess with them.

Thanks for your replies, I'm considering them but maybe the way we do it is a pretty good way. Wormsign

this sounds like you are identifying grain direction for a surface symbol. if this is true then you can use a lay symbol with the surface symbol. you can specify radial (modifier R), perpendicular to symbol (symbol _|_), angular cross pattern (symbol X), multi directional pattern (symbol M), circular lay (symbol C), parallel lay (symbol =), or a partuculate lay (basically a sand blast, symbol P). these are all modifiers in the surface symbol function.

Words of Wisdom (WoW): only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. iQ

I vote for the method

To paraphrase Occams Razor - the principle pronounced by the English philosopher Willam of Occam "All things being equal the simplest solution is the correct one"

On your drawing sketch an arrow of some sort and then add a text note. Select it all and save in your company design library as a block. Then all you need to do is drag and drop the block into your drawings.

If you need to create two versions, one horizontal and one vertical note.

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Made a block of a double sided arrow : , hor and vertical. Also made one with the "paper" (film) side, just in case the guy forgot that we draw "paper up".