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lkerila1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 19, 2011
Question

Equality Symbols

Hello folks,

Happy new years.

Say, I found I could add a less/greater than or equal symbol to my drawing
by holding the ALT key and typing the ASCII code # 242 or 243. Great! Why
isn't this in the Pro/E symbol palette?

Now for the bummer: when I create a PDF file (straight from Pro) it
DOESN'T PRINT the symbol! WTF?

Any solutions, other than creating my own custom symbol?

Cheers,

-Lar

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bkurth10-Marble
10-Marble
January 20, 2011

Here you go...

<u>Tip: To Make a ≥ or ≤ Symbol Within a Note:
</u>

Format note as follows:

@#>@# OR @#<@#
Now change the font of character '>' or '<', select the note and move the pointer over the character '>' or '<'. Select the character '>' or '<' and right click on it. Select Text Style, change the font to 'Cal_grek'



In Reply to Lar Kerila:

Hello folks,

Happy new years.

Say, I found I could add a less/greater than or equal symbol to my drawing
by holding the ALT key and typing the ASCII code # 242 or 243. Great! Why
isn't this in the Pro/E symbol palette?

Now for the bummer: when I create a PDF file (straight from Pro) it
DOESN'T PRINT the symbol! WTF?

Any solutions, other than creating my own custom symbol?

Cheers,

-Lar
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lkerila1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 21, 2011




Brilliant! Thank you Brian.
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A.DelNegro1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 21, 2011
So I finally download the Granite Cross-release interoperability file
and when I unzip the file, the only thing there is a DLL.



Is that it? What am I supposed to do with that? I did look up the
instructions to install a dll and this is what I got when I tried to
install it...







Anyone know what I need to do to get this running? I still can't open
the file.

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davehaigh13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
January 21, 2011
Granite plugins, there are versions for 32bit and 64bit and the specific release you are on.

The Granite stuff is hidden on the website and you will not find the plugin on the download page.
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lkerila1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 21, 2011





Actually, Brian's method has a serious short coming. When I change the font style to Cal Greek, it always changes the style for the entire line of text (dimensions too). I don't want that, since it will force me to have to create a separate note in order to work around this limitation. Any other bright ideas?
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davehaigh13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
January 21, 2011
Larry,
Do this
Note with font changed inline {1:<} or {3:>}

With the curly braces separating the special characters, you can now pick on the symbol in the note until just that it hi-lites in red, then RMB text style, change the font from default to Cal Greek.

David Haigh
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lkerila1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 21, 2011




I should have been more clear. I am trying to do this for a dimension. I already knew that I could segment the text in a line of text for a note. However, this technique does not appear to work for dimensions. Any other ideas?
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davehaigh13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
January 22, 2011
That really sucks!

You can use the curly braces in a dimension and it does separate that piece of text so you can pick it by itself, but like Lar points out, you can't change the font of that character, because it changes the full line.

You can put in some special characters, but I haven't found the symbol Larry's looking for.

Here's how you put a special character into a note and dimension.

Here's how to get a proper copy write symbol character into a ProE drawing or format.


* In windows pick Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map

* Change the font in the Character Map window to Courier. (it's the most universal.)

* Hi-Lite the Copy Right symbol and pick the Select button at the bottom of the window.

* Then pick the Copy Button. You can now paste this into a note in ProE.

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David Haigh
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lkerila1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 22, 2011




Yeah, this is no different than where I started - ASCII character codes. I still can't get them to show on the PDF drawing unless I tick "stroke all fonts" and then they look like crap (guess maybe I can control that with a modified pen table file?).
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rreifsnyder15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
January 23, 2011
If you first go into the text editor you can make the single character it's own line, change the font, then go back into the text editor and remove the carriage returns without deleting the brackets it will leave the new font on the selected characters. I know it's dumb to have to do all this, but it works.

Rob Reifsnyder
Mechanical Design Engineer/ Pro/E Librarian
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