MikeHalloran
Mechanical
- Aug 29, 2003
- 14,450
Our technicians generally do not understand, and are not expected to understand, schematics or ladder diagrams. They build moderately complex industrial control panels from what are essentially simplified pictorials, showing each and every actual wire going, e.g., from terminal A of contactor N to terminal B of contactor R, a single line per wire.
In color. The color of the actual wires. Including wires that are not just one color, e.g. red with a black tracer, black with a red tracer, etc.
The question: How to represent the wires?
I've had a little success overlaying a line drawn with 'hidden' linetype in one color with a second line drawn in 'dashdot' linetype in another color on another layer. But I get blank areas where there's no color, the result doesn't really look all that great, and it's kind of a pita to draw the same line twice.
Suggestions?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
In color. The color of the actual wires. Including wires that are not just one color, e.g. red with a black tracer, black with a red tracer, etc.
The question: How to represent the wires?
I've had a little success overlaying a line drawn with 'hidden' linetype in one color with a second line drawn in 'dashdot' linetype in another color on another layer. But I get blank areas where there's no color, the result doesn't really look all that great, and it's kind of a pita to draw the same line twice.
Suggestions?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA