Library object insertion point

[Mike Bartholomew]

It would be useful to have an icon for the insertion point (0,0,0) of all library objects. In the library object "RectangularFooting" in my user space, I have added 3 short lines in the XY, YZ, and XZ planes to designate the insertion point. It might also be helpful if there were 3 small circles in those same planes so that in any of the CADDfrom3D views it would appear as a circle with cross-hairs. The insertion point should not show up in the project file, but should be made visible when selecting an object in the project.

[Ali Koc]

Sounds good. I wonder if there should be an "Axis3D" built-in object available in the system, this way you can place this object somewhere in your object in the library for reference (possibly at 0,0,0) and also customize (size, label, font etc.). I am not clear on how it would show up on the 2D drawing though. you said circle with cross-hairs, but I am not sure how that is supposed to look like. Can you provide an example?

[Mike Bartholomew]

I changed the same library object to add the circles. I've used solids circles, but think hollow circles would be better. When you view the 3D views, you sill see a small hollow circle with two perpendicular short lines in each plane. In the CADDFrom 3D views these show up as hollow circles.

[Ali Koc]

There are number of ways to handle this. It seems you have created such a nice InsertionPoint object. :-)

Library objects now support a new type of object named ActiveOnly. If you create an object with T="ActiveOnly", anything included in that object will be visible only when the object is active in the project.

That means all you need to do is to place the InsertionPoint object inside an object of type "ActiveOnly". Then the insertion will be displayed when the object is activated in the project.