Hi. I’ve attached an odg file of what I’m trying to realize. For those of you familiar with electricity imagine a voltmeter with a positive and negative test lead of differing colors connected between two points on a wiring diagram. It seems I can “group” two connectors, but then my control over the paths taken by connectors becomes very limited. Ideally a circle in the center which can be realized by making half-circle ends of individual connectors, but the circle is often not complete as the grouped connectors don’t seem to know anything about one another. Guessing somebody knows a better way. Thank you.
blower wiring diagram with annotations.odg (104.1 KB)
Quite impressive! I’ll try to design a bi-colour voltmeter with coloured leads. But one remark: you spent a hard long time drawing your dashed boxes, made of individual short segments. Do you know you can customise a rectangle to have no area fill and a dashed border? Just select the rectangle and Format>Line. This reduces to a single object instead of dozens of small segments.
Thanks for the quick reply… everything that is black is a wiring diagram made by the manufacturer. When imported into Libra office this happens automatically
I don’t know if this is what you are looking for.
I created two half-circles and a text box (containing V) because it looks like you can’t label a group. These 3 objects where grouped as Voltmeter. I then added connectors attached to top and bottom glue points.
You can now move around the voltmeter. The leads remain attached to it. You only adjust the ends and force a bit the routing.
Voltmeter.odg (14.7 KB)
EDIT: If you don’t need a bi-colour voltmeter, the design can be simplified as a simple labelled circle. This has the advantage to provide many more glue points. This is probably more versatile for your purpose.
I modified the attached document, adding this simplified design and two styles for the leads: Positive lead (master style) and Negative lead (derived style). The second one differs from the first only by the colour. This means any modification you make to Positive lead is forwarded to Negative lead, e.g. stroke widths or type of line.
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Perfect, thanks for including an example and explanation.