Hydraulic symbols anchorage

[mondecsrl]

Hello.
When I draw an air valve and convert it into a hydraulic element, the program chooses the center of the symbol as an anchor, therefore when I want to place that valve on the pipe or on a hydraulic valve and I want to calculate the connections in the program, I don't miss the fittings because it has the anchor center in the wrong place how can I change or fix this?
Thank you.

[jovivier]

In IRRICAD Standalone the anchor point is always at the centre of the symbol.

However, in IRRICAD Link the symbol (block) creation is a native AutoCAD / BricsCAD tool and does allow you to pick the 'anchor' point.
As per the instructions in the Irricad Options|Release Notes - Migrating from IRRICAD Pro Standalone to IRRICAD Link -> Other Helpful Details -> Databases and Symbol Names -> Converting Symbols From IRRICAD Pro, you can see that the WBLOCK function has a "Pick Point" option for you to specify the insertion base point. This will be the point that will need to connect to pipes and other hydraulic items.

The IRRICAD Team

[Dan Crosby]

In Standalone you can also work around this problem by deliberately drawing your symbol "off center" to position the centre-point on the symbol where you wish the connection point to be. The disadvantage of this approach is that Irricad uses the symbol extents to find the centre-point - meaning that to manipulate the centre-point, you need to manipulate these extents. This might mean adding 'unnecessary' elements to the symbol design.