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making ruler visible from higher hierarchy

FormerMember
FormerMember over 5 years ago

hi guys,

say i mark something with ruler on cell X which is a sub block of cell Y..

i can see the ruler exist in cell X but when i open cell Y i did not see the ruler that was supposed to be in cell X that instantiate in cell Y.\how do i make this possible?

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago

    For saved rulers (rather than transient rulers) you can enable this with: envSetVal("graphic" "displayRulerInHierarchy" 'boolean t)

    This is covered in more details in this article: How to view rulers created and saved in lower-level cells at the current Layout level

    Andrew

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago

    For saved rulers (rather than transient rulers) you can enable this with: envSetVal("graphic" "displayRulerInHierarchy" 'boolean t)

    This is covered in more details in this article: How to view rulers created and saved in lower-level cells at the current Layout level

    Andrew

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    FormerMember over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    thanks andrew for this... really help me a lot..

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