Glue Points / Connection Points

I am creating new master drawings of equipment my company uses. I am trying
to add Glue points. I open the master which is all grouped and click on it,
then using the connection point tool from the menu bar hold the ctrl button
and add a connector to my drawing. Good so far. Now I close the master and
save the changes. Open a new drawing drag in a Server rack then drag in my
new drawing and the glue points don't work. Yes, the snap and glue are
active. What am I not doing to get this to work???????

Your equipment shapes need to be converted to 1-D objects. Make your custom
stencil editable, then double click your master object to edit it. Right
click the shape, formatbehaviorInteraction Styleselect line (1-D). Most
likely, the connection points will be centered vertically. Right click the
shape again, open the shapesheet. In the Shape Transform section, change the
cell value for LocPinY to be 0 or Height*0. Either will work. Save and
close your master.

Wapperdude


"Rob Stone" wrote:

I am creating new master drawings of equipment my company uses. I am trying
to add Glue points. I open the master which is all grouped and click on it,
then using the connection point tool from the menu bar hold the ctrl button
and add a connector to my drawing. Good so far. Now I close the master and
save the changes. Open a new drawing drag in a Server rack then drag in my
new drawing and the glue points don't work. Yes, the snap and glue are
active. What am I not doing to get this to work???????

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 05:30:01 -0700, Rob Stone Rob
wrote:

I am creating new master drawings of equipment my company uses. I am trying
to add Glue points. I open the master which is all grouped and click on it,
then using the connection point tool from the menu bar hold the ctrl button
and add a connector to my drawing. Good so far. Now I close the master and
save the changes. Open a new drawing drag in a Server rack then drag in my
new drawing and the glue points don't work. Yes, the snap and glue are
active. What am I not doing to get this to work???????

To add to wrapperdude's answer, there are 3 types of connection point,
their appearance are all slightly different, to see which type you
have open the shape sheet for the shape. While you are in the
shapesheet are the connection points part of the group or part of the
group's sub-shapes?


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