Hi,
is it possible to include arrows with fixed arrowhead. So that the arrowhead doesn’t scale when the length is changed/scaled.
Regards Chris
any news whether it’s possible to include?
I have an extensive App with nearly a hundred steps with assembling pictures for assembly orders.
So I’m using a lot of arrows too, but the arrow head scales with the length of the arrow; doesn’t look very professional…
Regards Chris
I would say lines should be configurable as in MS Office.
Color, Thickness, Angle, Length, Endpoint style (arrow head / dot), Endpoint size…
This would have a huge impact on building instructions, and this would open the door for manipulating them on runtime (when such a feature comes for all widget parameters in future, as I hope).
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Hi @thorsten.langner and @ChrisF -
I can understand the frustration here (especially when you need to use the arrow widget extensively), and the apps/widgets team will be working on improving this. This is part of a a bucket of work to make many improvements made to widgets in the near future (likely within this year).
In the meantime, I can suggest using something like powerpoint to help configure your arrows as you would like and then copying those into Tulip. I totally acknowledge this is not an optimal workflow right now, and that is why the team will be working to improve the arrow widget functionality within Tulip!
Stay tuned
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@Beth
any news?
Chris
@ChrisF @thorsten.langner any chance you could share a few screenshots of your instruction steps? I’d like to see your usage of arrows, as well as other shapes/widgets you might use to build out your instruction steps.
Thanks for following up on this.
Hi @shep
I’m using this for an exploded-view drawing, where every part number is a button with logic to show detailed information about the part and highlight the next part to assemble (it’s a help not a have to)
Inside the app there are a hundred of different assembling views like this
You can see the different arrow head length
HTH
Chris
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Hi @ChrisF thanks for sharing how you’re using arrows. We will look into improving how we do this.
In the meantime, an alternative approach to this you could try is using the line or rectangle shape to point to elements if the skewed arrowheads are too distorted.