AECOsim Building Designer Help

Place Active Line Terminator

Used to place the Active Line Terminator cell on a line, line string, arc, or complex chain, primarily to place arrowheads.

You can access this tool from the following:

  • Ribbon: Drawing > Home > Placement > Cells split button
  • Ribbon: Drawing > Annotate > Cells > More split button
  • Toolbox: Cells


Tool Setting Effect Alternate key-in
Terminator Sets Active Line Terminator, which can also be set in the Cell Library dialog. ACTIVE TERMINATOR <terminator>

or

LT= <terminator>

Browse Cells Opens the Cell Libraries dialog for purposes of selecting a different active cell as a line terminator.  
Scale Sets Active Line Terminator scale. ACTIVE TSCALE <scale>

or

TS= <scale>

Key-in: PLACE TERMINATOR
Tip: To place text (a note) in the DGN file with an arrow, it is easiest to use the Place Note tool in the Text toolbox.