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September 19, 2023
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Symbols on drawings show up as boxes

  • September 19, 2023
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I'm making a drawing of a model that was created by someone else. When I show the dimensions on the drawing - all of the symbols show up as square blocks.  The numbers are fine, but the symbols for diameter, counterbore, depth etc. all show up looking like square blocks. Anybody know a reason why?

Best answer by llie

We experienced the same issues. You will need to change the model and the drawing properties to the following. We made two mapkey for our users.

 

Drawing: set the symbol_font to stroked_asme

Driving model in drawing: set the symbol_font to stroked_asme

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Sarvesh_B14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
September 19, 2023

Hi @JM_8847223 ,

 

You can refer to the article CS265761 this might help you to resolve the issue.

 

Thanks & Regards,

Sarvesh

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    llie17-PeridotAnswer
    17-Peridot
    September 20, 2023

    We experienced the same issues. You will need to change the model and the drawing properties to the following. We made two mapkey for our users.

     

    Drawing: set the symbol_font to stroked_asme

    Driving model in drawing: set the symbol_font to stroked_asme

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      23-Emerald III
      BenLoosli23-Emerald III
      23-Emerald III
      September 20, 2023

      The boxes in place of text means that your computer does not have the font that the original was created with. 

      Are these TrueType fonts or a PTC font, like Font or IsoFont?

       

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      llie17-Peridot
      17-Peridot
      September 20, 2023

      @BenLoosli  ours used to be isofont and we hand to switch to stroked_asme for drawing and non-mbd models. 
      For MBD models we had to use asme. It is a weird issue that PTC recognizes and fixed in Creo Parametric 7.0.10.0 I believe.

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