Hi All
I have a question I have been noodling around with for a while reading drafting and electric texts as well as numerous internet searches.

Here in ‌‌Australia and I assume overseas (I know never assume) sometimes when wanting to show a cabling running to a device a long way away - like say a control device in the next building or down the road (I kid you not) or where the antennas of a wireless receiver are not attached to the back of the receiver but a cable is run some distance away and an extension antenna used - the drafter will cut the line and put two diagonals or two wavy lines in place. This is to represent the extended nature of the cable run as opposed to all the other cables. I cannot find information on this anywhere.

Does anyone know what I mean?‌‌
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Is this a stan‌‌dard?

And most importantly‌ is there any way to do this in Stardraw please?

Any assistance or advice gratefully received.

Thanks
Lloyd :-)‌‌‌‌‌

Hi Lloyd,

I‌ understand exactly what you mean and although we're not sure whether it's a standard it's certainly not uncommon and might be classed at least as a 'convention'.

T‌here's no specific tool in Stardraw to do this, nor is there any special automated function for this purpose, but probably the best approach would be simply to create a symbol ‌‌of the diagonal lines with a white line between them; this, when placed over a Cable, would give the impression of a break while maintaining the integrity of the Cable for the purposes of generating a Cable Schedule.

T‌he movie "Customizing the Symbol Browser", #22 at https://www1.stardraw.com/stardraw/sd7/movies‌ might be useful since it shows how to set up custom Symbol Directories and export drawings for use as Symbols.

I‌ hope this is helpful.‌

Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
Stardraw.com