How do I type symbols into Eng-Tips messages? 5

[drawoh]

I have some time on my hands, so I have posted a FAQ.

faq1103-2100​

This really applies all over Eng-Tips, but in this forum, we need to show off GD&T symbols. These are available or adequately fakeable with HTML codes.

[⌀] [⏤] [⏥] [○] [⌭] [⌾] [◠] [⌓] [⎳] [↗] [⌰] [⌯] [⌖] [℄] [↧] [⏘] [⌵]​

Enjoy.

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JHG

 

[chez311]

drawoh,

Thanks for this reference. I never really took the time to look up all the symbols, I might start making more consistent use of them going forward. Unfortunately I think as you noted chrome does a less than stellar job displaying some of those, especially the angularity symbol.

One thing you could add is the ability to box your FCF's using the "box" markup tag.

produces:
[box]⌖[/box][box]⌀0.01Ⓜ[/box][box]A[/box]

 

[drawoh]

chez311,

Thanks. I have added the boxes to my FAQ, with the appropriate attribution.

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JHG

 

[drawoh]

chez311,

Not all GD&T symbols are implemented in Unicode. The angularity symbol is a hack, hopefully, good enough to get the point across.

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JHG

 

[chez311]

Glad to help! Unfortunately composite tolerance might be problematic, I don't see a good way to box them with that tag.

Additionally, after some searching I found that an angle symbol for angularity is already implemented in the mathematical unicode list (8736). A delta symbol for dynamic profile per Y14.5-2018 could also be useful (8710).

[∠]
[∆]

 

[chez311]

Also perpendicularity (8869) [⊥]
And parallelism (11005) [⫽]

 

[drawoh]

chez311,

Added. Thank you.

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JHG