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AI Advisor points me to the Arrow Tool? Does it exist?
FG_Baas
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For a patent drawing I wanted to draw an arrow on a drawing. A thin arrow like on a note or dimension.
It would be fine to have text attached to it, so using a note to make the arrow is fine. But to make a note leader with an arrow it has to be attached to something on the drawing. Otherwise it becomes a dot on the end of the line, or sometimes nothing on the end. But I wanted an arrow to point at a group of objects from a distance.
I asked advisor, and I was pointed to the arrow tool, which sounds really cool. But, does it actually exist? I have no clue where to find it.
Also, there is no Search bar in drawings?
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There is not an arrow tool in drawings that I'm aware of.
You can right click a text box and add a leader line to it. This will create an arrow. If your textbox is empty, this will leave you with just an arrow. There may be better ways of doing this now, I haven't messed with drawings in a while.
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If the note arrow is the size you want, there is a small easter egg in creating an arrowing without it being attached to anything.
First create the note with a leader in space. This first leader will be a filled dot. Now hold ALT key, hover over just the leader, click and drag the new leader and unclick once in position. If you need to move the leader you will need to make a new leader in same manner as moving the leader will generate a dot again.
Below is an example. The filled dot was my first leader (which you can delete after) and then I used the ALT +Click and drag to create three more.
Thanks @MichaelPascoe and @tabetha_bulnes !
Let's not tell Onshape about this 'easter egg'! I think it's more of a bug :)
But Onshape should know the AI Advisor is advising some non-existing features…
@FG_Baas So the AI Advisor does point to real features just not features you are looking for.
The first one can be found on the right hand side. This is just stylize the arrows BUT it wont change a filled dot to an arrow
The second one is in reference to the Markups found in the comments or when creating a ticket to Onshape.
Just in case this is helpful, there's also a custom feature which can be used to create arrows which are actual geometry.
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