Wire link index

Question

Is it possible to not show wire link index?

Matt_P · Accepted Answer

Hi Frederic. Wire link indexes are displayed on the page when the wire link is not linked to another wire link. If you do not plan on linking the wire link to another, we recommend using a standard symbol instead of a wire link symbol. Is the wire link in question linked to another?

Matt_P · Answer

Frederic, there have been issues with the wire link index appearing on the page in the past when the the wire link cross reference attribute is included on the symbol. But I was not able to reproduce this in recent versions. What version of Promis.e are you using (see the About Promis.e dialog)? 
 If no wire link cross reference attribute exists on the symbol, the cross reference information will appear where the DeviceID attribute is placed. So to remove "24V/1" in this case, you could remove the wire link cross reference attribute. I would make sure there is a backup of the catalog containing the wire link symbol first. 
 You would remove the cross reference attribute with the following procedure: 
 
 Select Create Symbol . 
 Select the Modify Existing Symbol option and click the [..] button to browse for the symbol. Select the symbol and click OK . 
 Click Next until the symbol drawing appears for editing. 
 Right-click the cross reference attribute on the symbol drawing. The pop up menu hat appears should include something like "Attribute:CrossReference_001". (If you cannot find such text on the page, click the Attribute Editor button on the Specify Attributes step of the wizard and give the "CrossReference_001" attribute a Value.) 
 Select Delete from the pop up menu. 
 You may want to move the DeviceID attribute to where you want the cross reference text to be displayed. 
 Save the symbol. 
 
 You will need to update existing projects with the new symbol definition by using Update Symbol .

Matt_P · Answer

Frederic, I see the behavior with the handles that you described. One thing I noticed is that their are different values for the two symbols in Settings > Design File > Working Units (select this from the main pull down menus). I think the original file may be the one with unusual values. Then I modified SIGTEST in Create Symbol with the Apply the seed file when modifying a symbol check box set and the ANSI-IEEE_T_2D.Dgn seed file specified. At the end I specified a new symbol name so this was really a "new symbol based on another symbol" type of operation. The handles outline a small box when the the new symbol is placed. 
 Elements can be moved using the platform's Move tool (keyboard shortcut 3 2). I ntelligent objects like symbols and wires can be moved by right-clicking them and selecting Move from the pop up. "Stretch" wires by using Draw Wire to simply draw over existing wires.