Changing Electrical Symbols Text

[DHerb2014]

How do you change electrical symbols texts and add as a default in X15? E.g., when selecting an AFCI / GFCI symbol, it's default is the City Blueprint font and I'd like to make it Arial Narrow and add it back into the default library. 

[DBCooper]

Select the outlet and use the "edit cad block" tool.  

Select the text and change the text style.

Save the bock and then save the outlet to your user library.

Go into your electrical defaults and select your modified outlet from your library.

 

I think it still works this way back in X15.  If you don't have the edit cad block tool, you can still do it but it takes more steps.

[DHerb2014]

Thanks for your comments. I did this previously, but it doesn't change the default electrical block in Chief's Library. Once you explode and edit the block and re-save, it changes it to a standard block in the user library, but you cannot "Connect Electrical" and simply add to the wall switch. You must take additional steps for a workaround, and waste time. 

 

I just wanted to know if we could change the global font for electrical outlets and other items in our Chief Architect Core Catalogs folder, and not create separate blocks that must reside in our User Library.

 

Crazy how they add all kinds of gingerbread items that we don't need in yearly updates, yet won't address simple issues like giving us the ability to change to our favorite fonts in these default items in the Core Libraries. 

[DBCooper]

You can't change the core libraries (and I doubt Chief will ever let you) but you should still be able to do what you want with only a little bit of work.

 

You can make your own GFI outlets with the text exactly how you want and save them to your user library as an outlet (not as a block).  Once they are in your user library you can assign them to your electrical defaults.  If you do this correctly, they should work exactly the same as the OOB ones. If you do this for your template plan, you won't have to do it again.  If you can't get this to work right, then you are probably doing something wrong.

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by DBCooper