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JM_88472231-Visitor
1-Visitor
Sep 19, 2023 10:28 PM UTC
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Symbols on drawings show up as boxes

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?

llieAnswer
17-Peridot
Sep 20, 2023 2:28 PM UTC

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
Sep 19, 2023 11:44 PM UTC

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
    Sep 20, 2023 2:28 PM UTC

    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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      BenLoosli23-Emerald III
      23-Emerald III
      Sep 20, 2023 2:57 PM UTC

      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
      Sep 20, 2023 5:19 PM UTC

      @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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