Adding text symbols in drawings 1

[Hayden]

Hi all,

You know the text symbol box that pops up each time you edit a note in drawings?

Does anyone know how to add more symbols to this? My company use this one symbol all the time and it would be easier to be able to add it to notes this way than through insert symbol instance.

Cheers,

Hayden

 

[Tofflemire]

Hi Hayden

Open a drawing, then in format, symbol gallery, define your symbol. You add various fields to when you define the symbol and also how to attach. Play with the define mode. Save this in a symbol dir, add config.pro search path line.

Tofflemire

 

[3dlogix]

I think Hayden is refering to the Symbol Palette dialoge box.

Not sure if you can add to this. PTC's KB doesnt have any info on this item.

Steve

http://www.sprdesign.com

http://www.3dlogix.com

 

[Tofflemire]

Hi Guys,

I misread your post. You can create your own pallet by setting a config option symbol_instance_palette_file. There is another way to do bring a in a symbol into you notes, but there is a catch. It has to be loaded at least once into your symbol instance file for any drawing.

To make a symbol instance appear in the NOTES..
1.If the said symbol instance is present in the current drawing...

&sym(name)
where 'name' is the name of the symbol instance file without the file extension.

To get special symbols like this to be inserted in our NOTES,we need to enter a key-in their corresponding ASCII codes.How we do that is...

Hold down the ALT key and press the number representing ASCII code of our special character, as soon as you are done, let go of the ALT key. Now you can see the character in the text window.

Eg:
ALT+0169=©
ALT+0174=®
ALT+0181=µ

Not exactly what your are looking for.

Tofflemire

 

[Hora]

Hayden,

I agree with Steve on this one. I think is ProE internal stuff.

All I know is that the font "special.fnt" controls these symbols to be displayed right in your drawing.

Take a look at this file: "special.src" in <ProE loadpoint>\text\usascii\. I think there you can add more info into your pallete. But it seems to me that this file must be somehow compiled to be used. See the file "special.fnt" from ..\i486_nt\text\usacii.

-Hora