North_Arrow

A north arrow is added to the View and is orientated to indicate the true North direction of that view. The location of the north arrow can be set by creating a Reserved Area on the template drawing.

Create a VNOTE below the template view with LVIS FALSE and under it create a RECTangle with its origin at the centre and part-named with the string ‘n_arrow’. The task looks for this rectangle and uses its position for the north arrow symbol. If the rectangle does not exist, then the symbol is placed at a default position defined as the top-left corner of the view.

The north arrow is orientated to conform to the actual north direction of the view. It also functions correctly with any of the Isometric views, Iso 1 to 4 inclusive. Any other view direction such as elevation view is not given a north arrow.

The user can reposition the created SYMB element if required using the Draw standard application tools.

The north arrow SYMB is created in a unique LAYE element which is named as per the VIEW plus a suffix /NorthArrow