tilde in annotation 1

[cowski]

Is there a way to get a tilde (~) into a drafting note? I didn't see anything in the help docs and the usual trick of adding a '$' or '&' in front didn't work.

Still stuck on NX2.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Try using the NX font named 'latin_extended'.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[cowski]

I don't have the 'latin_extended' font in my NX2 installation, is it a non-stock font?

Your suggestion did point me in the right direction, I cycled through the fonts I do have and found a tilde in only 3 of the 65 fonts (iso-1, haulpak, and cyrillic). Of these 3, haulpak will work best with the current font I am using. I will just use the font number control characters (<fn>~<f>) to get what I want.

Thanks

 

[JohnRBaker]

There's nothing special about 'latin_extended' that I'm aware of and am surprised that it was not included with your release (from what I can tell, it's been around since NX 2). In case you're interested, I've attached a copy of it below. Place it in the...

\UGII\ugfonts

...folder.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[ewh]

It's included in our copies of NX5 and 6.
Time to move up?

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. - [small]Hunter S. Thompson[/small]

 

[cowski]

Here's the weird part: that font already exists in my local UGII\ugfonts directory. NX must be looking in a network folder for the fonts, I'll try to track that one down.

ewh,
Yes, it is really time to move up - but it is out of my control. Rumor has it we are moving to NX6 'soon', but I am not holding my breath.