How to write ⏚ in a table or note?

[mholst]

I am making a table for drawings and need to use "⏚" (electric ground) in this.

I am unable to find it anywhere in Creo and if I try to copy/paste it I just get at square (□). Weirdly enough if I copy/paste this square to a text editor I get the ⏚ symbol again...

I now I can insert a symbol like this into the drawing but not into the table or a note.

It seems like the fonts in Creo does not support this standard unicode U+23AD symbol which is weird to me.

I am using Creo 4.0 M30

[tbraxton]

This may be font related. Make sure you have a font available in Windows font directory that supports the unicode character set and use that font inside Creo when creating the note.

[Dale_Rosema]

I have had things where if I type directly into the cell, it doesn't work, but if I right click and go to properties, I can then add it. Things changed when the went to WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) typing.

[MartinHanak · Accepted solution]

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@mholst wrote:

I am making a table for drawings and need to use "⏚" (electric ground) in this.

I am unable to find it anywhere in Creo and if I try to copy/paste it I just get at square (□). Weirdly enough if I copy/paste this square to a text editor I get the ⏚ symbol again...

I now I can insert a symbol like this into the drawing but not into the table or a note.

It seems like the fonts in Creo does not support this standard unicode U+23AD symbol which is weird to me.

I am using Creo 4.0 M30

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Hi,

1.]

I copied ⏚ character into Word 2010 document. It was displayed using MingLiU font.

2.]

I searched C:\Windows\Fonts directory and found mingliu.ttc file

3.]

mingliu.ttc file is not recognized by Creo, Creo knows TTF files, only

4.]

I converted mingliu.ttc file using https://transfonter.org/ttc-unpack website

I downloaded zip file containing 3 TTF files. See attached file.

5.]

I put PMingLiU-02.ttf into C:\PTC\Creo2_M070\Creo 2.0\Common Files\M070\text\fonts directory (Creo 2.0 M070 installation)

6.]

I launched Creo 2.0 M070, created a note containing ⏚ characters and assigned PMingLiU font to it. Now I can see ⏚ character.

[mholst]

So it seems the issue is simply that the standard fonts in Creo does not have the symbol.

This may solve similar issues for me in the future as I often have drawings with these squares comming from countries that use special alphabets e.g. Cyrillic.

Thanks

[mholst]

Seems I was a little too quick to accept this as solution.
I have copied the font to the font directory and I can use the font in Creo. However on my drawing the symbol still shows up as a square...

In the Editor however it is show correct...

[MartinHanak]

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@mholst wrote:

Seems I was a little too quick to accept this as solution.
I have copied the font to the font directory and I can use the font in Creo. However on my drawing the symbol still shows up as a square...

In the Editor however it is show correct...

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Hi,

what font is set on Text Style tab in Note properties dialog box ?

[mholst]

It is set to MingLiU-ExtB

[mholst]

Installed the font Quivira.ttf which have the U+23AD character for ⏚ and it worked with this font.

This means your answer was correct all along but for some reason the font chosen differs...

Thanks for the help.