automatic symbols .. ideas

[GPowers2]

fellow users ....
I have a requirement on a drawing to add a symbol that has a 'number' increment on each placement (many placements on a single drawing across multiple sheets) ... this is for a FAI(first article inspection) document whereby I have to identify each dimension / surface finish / GD and T with a unique identifier .... if you have got this far and have some idea what I am talking about ? - does anyone have ideas as to the best way to achieve this ....

many thanks ....
Gary

 

[hudson888]

Gary,

My guess would be that you would create a program to do this for you. If you do that you could also store values to attributes so that editing and maintaining the correct number relationships becomes easier to maintain.

What you could do if the number of these ID's was to be reasonably low and the use frequent is to create a file with the ID symbol numbered 1, and then transform an array, then manually edit each number from one to say 20. I'd save that file and keep it so that whenever I had to do this task I could just import that file and move the text origin of the symbols over the features that I need to number then delete the rest. It's simple and cheesy but for the way I've seen this done in drafting it may be as good a way as any.

Cheers

Hudson

 

[JohnRBaker]

Please provide an image of what it would look like and what sort of ID you need, Alpha, Numeric, some combo. If Alpha, single letter progression to double letter, or double letter from the start? If Alpha, do you wish to skip 'I', 'O' and 'Q'?

John R. Baker, P.E.
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