Quick Coupler Spacing

Brian,

There is nothing built-in to do this. You could conceivably add non-plot circles to the block, but they will keep getting turned on every time you generate a schedule.
It feels like it would be better to be a more generic feature, that allows the user to select any block, and enter any distance, and it will place circles of that radius at every block on a temporary layer. This could help with setback and placement issues it would seem.

--J

Interesting. I like the way that it works, but it sounds like Brian is more interested in having the guides remain as the head arcs do until the place laterals command is invoked. I guess I have no issue with that either. In fact just yesterday I was hoping for something like that. I was using the guides during the placement of the QC's, but then after they went in I had to massage them to be equally spaced. It would have been nice to have the guides there to be able to visually space them easier. I know that we have bigger fish to fry though. Keep up the great work at LandFX.

Yeah, really the only way to pull this off would be to switch it to being a complex block, like the sprinklers are, with the two sub-blocks. So we definitely already have all that code laying around, just would need to put it all together, and then figure out all the places where those layers should automatically turn on and off.
Which is just a more complicated task, hence why I was thinking maybe just a more general tool regarding offset distances would be easier to implement and useful for other tasks as well.

--J

I just drew a circle around the block and copied around the site. No biggie.

I agree with you Jer. I mean we’re not talking head to head coverage, weee talking about pulling a hose. One technical advancement above a bucket.