Adding or modifying the symbol library!!!!!!

"tony" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com...

You have to edit the file gtol.sym in sw-inst]\lang\english

This is an ASCII file which can be edited. In the file you find a brief descrption of the parameters you should use. I have a (german) page at

shows how to do this and some examples for symbols we use in our company.

HTH, Stefan

Keep in mind that whoever else reads the drawing needs to have the same symbol library installed.

One other thing to check out is the character map in Windows. There are some symbols that come in handy there. Some have key shortcuts: [alt]0216 Ø [alt]0149 ? [alt]0177 ± [alt]0176 ° [alt]0178 x² [alt]0179 x³ [alt]250 ·

That's worth taping to the monitor!

I had been trying to figure out what the code was for Ø was I didn't know the 0 infront of it made a difference in what you got. I had tried all the

3 digit ones from 1 to 256.

I have had a list like this taped to my monitor for years now. It really is a good idea.

I use a few different combinations as well. Some of them get the same characters though.

[alt]248 ° [alt]241 ± [alt]257 ? (smiley) [alt]258 ? (smiley) [alt]247 ? [alt]227 ? [alt]228 ? [alt]242 ? [alt]243 ? [alt]249 ? [alt]253 x² [alt]291 # [alt]292 $ [alt]293 %

Note that this is specific to the Century Gothic font (the default for SW notes, etc.), and the symbol actually doesn't look the same as the SW diameter symbol.

Their symbol code-names (i.e. , , etc.) do not seem to be documented anywhere - but if you know the symbol name you can still type it into notes as well (if you didn't already know that) and it will transform into the proper symbol.

If you have Character Map installed with Windows (Programs...Accessories...System Tools, on WinXP), fire it up and select the SWGDT font. You can see all the GDT symbols there and you can cut and paste them that way if you *really* need them - BUT you have to specify the font as SWGDT in Solidworks...so this is kind of useless....

Interesting...I'm going to see if I can find out how they map the symbol names to SWGDT font codes. They must be changing the font of individual characters in the note to implement their symbols...hmmm....

Markus

OK - I wrote a quick Python script to parse the Gtol.sym file...I'll post a new thread with the results.

Markus

Markus Wankus wrote:

It is taped to mine! I was typing as I was reading it.

What if I have a sketched symbol? The symbol that I want to add is not a Character map item.

snipped-for-privacy@hansenint.com (tony) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

there was a post a few years ago where the now departed Roland Scaleri posted a symbol of a middle finger salute. This cantankerous old bastard had too much time on his hands, aparently. The post was called "Fun with Symbols" and went something like this:

=============================================== You sure can learn a lot of useful things here, which you can apply as you wish. Here are two more examples of custom symbols. Ken Bosch's example of how to fiddle with the symbol stuff was so nice, I had to try it. BOXA is a five sided box with an A in it that you can put right in a note. "New symbol" is for use on special ocaisions. Use this at your own risk.

*BOXA, Boxed A A,LINE 0,0,.7,0 A,LINE .7,0,1,.5 A,LINE 1,.5,.7,1 A,LINE .7,1,0,1 A,LINE 0,1,0,0 A,Text .4,.6,A *NEWSYM,New Symbol A,LINE 0,.3,0,.5 A,ARC .1,.5,.1,0,180 A,ARC .3,.5,.1,0,180 A,ARC .5,.9,.1,0,180 A,ARC .7,.5,.1,0,180 A,ARC .9,.5,.1,0,180 A,LINE .2,.3,.2,.5 A,LINE .4,.3,.4,.9 A,LINE .6,.3,.6,.9 A,LINE .8,.3,.8,.5 A,LINE 1,.3,1,.5 A,LINE .3,0,.7,0 A,ARC .3,.3,.3,180,270 A,ARC .7,.3,.3,270,360

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