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Dale_Rosema
23-Emerald III
Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
July 19, 2013
Question

Symbol in a table cell

  • July 19, 2013
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Is it possible to put a symbol in a table cell?

In this discussion there is a .pdf about making templates:

http://communities.ptc.com/message/209849#209849

On Page 46 it shows putting a symbol in the drawing template. Is it just being laid on top of the table or is it actually part of the table that can be saved out and brought into other drawings?

Thanks, Dale

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
July 20, 2013

It is just placed on the drawing.

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James621-Visitor
1-Visitor
July 20, 2013

Yup, it's possible:

http://communities.ptc.com/message/186376#186376

You can use a table to load symbols into your drawing in case you haven't got them in symbol gallery.

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
July 20, 2013

Nice Jakub. I totally missed that at the time:

http://communities.ptc.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-186376-35218/450-182/sym_test.PNG

I do have a little bit of transportability of using the symbol in this way. It has the entire path -locked- into the note. Once the symbol is added to the part/dwg/format... whatever, it is part of the file. Any way to just use the symbol name without the path? Any problem sharing the file?

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James621-Visitor
1-Visitor
July 21, 2013

It would require some testing, but I might not be wrong while just guessing now, that the table when being created, and when symbols are being added to it for the first time, requires all the full paths to be stated. That should be applied if the symbols are not in the symbol gallery of the drawing to which tables's the symbols are being added.

Let's just better put it this way:

  1. If you already have the required symbols in the symbol gallery of the drawing where you create a table or a note with these symbols then the syntax could work like this: &sym(SYMBOL_NAME)
  2. If you don't then you should state the full path for a note, and have the symbol file (*.sym) on that stated path. Once the symbol is loaded into symbol gallery, which is what the full path does, then you can move the symbol on your disk elsewhere, and the drawing will remember that symbol. Or open that drawing on someone else's comp.
  3. With tables it's a little different, because the table when created, and saved into *.tbl file, remembers the symbols that have been inserted in there. So even when it also remembers the full paths which it was created with, these paths to symbols are no longer relevant for that table. This table from *.tbl file will always bring all the symbols it carries into the drawing's symbol gallery.

Anyway, Tom, I think you shouldn't really be worried about these things, and just simply use full paths everytime, which is what you can have saved in a text note, that you can then load into a drawing easily with a mapkey. You can even have a mapkey to type in the whole thing for you.

I'll send you that table via email.

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BrentDrysdale12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
July 25, 2013

Hi Dale,

Don't use Tables that much but we do use a method to add symbols to dimensions by adding an aligned note to the dimension and this works well even if it is a kludge.

But the thing that allows it to work is sort of hidden and relates to our drawing templates. When I made these latest ones I called up a format as usual but I added the new symbols we wanted to use off the edge of the drawing template then deleted them and saved the template. This saves the symbols locally inside the template and means no path is required for them. Now if a user wants to use those symbols they are in the symbol palette and they can be called in when text editing a note. I think it is this last functionality that you will want.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Brent

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