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I have a logo for the local county government that I'm trying to make as a family so that I can just "stamp" it onto a sheet in the correct spot when needed, rather than design it as part of a sheet template.
It consists of a filled region, text, and an imported .png picture.
I have tried using the DETAIL COMPONENT template and the GENERIC ANNOTATION template, but in the first case, I can't place it on a sheet, and in the second place, I can't even get the items to copy into the template.
Does anyone know how I can reconcile these items into one family that can be placed on top of the title block?
Thank you.
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Try a symbol family instead of a detail component, that's what we have for our logo. It can be dropped directly onto a sheet or view, or inserted in the titleblock family.
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Huh. I didn't even notice that as an option. I'll check into that tomorrow. thanks!
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Where do I find the symbol family template? I don't seem to have that. Does it ship with RAC 2011?
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I have no issue inserting (text, image, and filled region) from a generic annotation into a template file, so I am not 100% sure what your problem is
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here is another option:
I know you said you don't want it as part of your title border but you could put into your title border and use a visibilty control to turn it on or off for each sheet
Or
put your logo in a legend view and you can place the legend view as needed on each sheet.
The best option is to create a family, not sure why you can't get your 3 items not to work.
TKennedy: What are you calling a symbol family? A symbol is nothing more than a 2D annotation family inserted by the symbol button under Annotation Tab. Am I missing something?
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cadman6735: I'm fairly certain we are talking about the same thing. Perhaps adding the word family in my post was a bit superfluous.
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TKennedy: It seems the OP was confussed by "symbol family" too and was looking for it. I just wanted to be sure we all understood each other. Thanks for the follow up.
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Thanks for the responses. What I ended up doing was creating a generic annotation file, and since it wouldn't let me copy anything over from the family I had already created (since I guess in annotation families you can have sheets and not views, and vice-versa with detail component families?), I just created it from scratch as a generic annotation. Then once that family was loaded into the project, I could use the symbol button to place it like a stamp on the sheet.
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