V7 legend view-- Bugs?

[cadpro]

Good morning all,

Just wanted to say hats off to all the folks on the v7 team. Fabulous release!!!!!!!

I don't know if this is a bug or not, but in legend views, some of the drafting tools seem to not function. Such as the trim tool, dimensioning legend components etc.

Can someone verify this condition?


Allen Turner
CAD Manager
Michael Hining Architects

[Chunk]

We've also been unable to dimension in the new legends. Love the fact we have a legend ability in 7.0, would like it even more if we could dimension on the legends. Particularily for doors, door frames, windows and sidelights!

[sfaust]

absolutely, I posted a question about this before. This is very much needed!

[David Conant]

In 7.0, dimensions do not work in legend views. The elements you see in legend views are effictively snapshots of the actual objects so that they don't participate in schedules and exports. As such, their references do not propogate to the legend view. Dimensions require references to work. We are working on methods to expose them in the future, but it was not possible to get them included during a single release cycle. We felt that although this is a definite limitation for door and window legends, there is sufficient value in the feature for many other legends that we should ship it.
A workaround for the 7.0 version is to create a rectangle of detail lines sized to the dimensions of the desired component. Dimension the rectangle and place the legend component on top. While it can't be aligned automatically (again, no references :sad: ) visual alignment should be adequate for most purposes.

[Steve_Stafford]

...In 7.0, dimensions do not work in legend views...We felt that although this is a definite limitation for door and window legends, there is sufficient value in the feature for many other legends that we should ship it...
Thanks for clarifying this David.