Special text characters - NX 8.5

[pjune]

If you have a line of text, how do you create a circle around a letter or number within that line of text? This is in NX 8.5.

 

[NutAce]

Hi pjune...

Can you give an example of what you are trying to accomplish?

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[pjune]

APPLY GREASE TO PAD ASSY 9 AND SHIM 10.

How do you put a circle around the numbers 9 and 10?

 

[JohnRBaker]

I can solve the '9' but not the '10' by using a TrueType font such as 'Circle Frame', which you can purchase for $29 from:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/circle-frame/

That being said, if this is not something that needs to fully associative you could simple leave an extra space before and after the numbers that you want circled and then create another note using the Drafting Symbol for a 'Sphere' set at twice the font size of the note and simply place them over the numbers, as seen below:

Another approach would be leave the numbers out of the text string altogether but including enough blank spaces so that you could later place a couple of ID 'Balloons', with the desired numbers, in the gaps.

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[BubbaK]

The standard Arial Unicode font has many circled characters. For example, it has circled numbers (1 through 20) in positions 2460 through 2473. Other fonts have these same entries, too.

So, in many applications (including NX, I think), you can type 2473 and then press Alt+X, and you'll get a circled number 20. If that doesn't work, try copy/paste from the Windows Character Map app.